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Excessive or affected modesty.

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Uso de prudery em inglês
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America has only recently lost its prudery and censorious cast of mind.
The Guardian
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The others indulged in no such prudery on so hot a night.
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
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Happily the day is passing when prudery governed the discussion of sex.
The Nervous Housewife
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Much prudery and false modesty, for instance, has gone by the board.
The Meaning of Witchcraft
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At once-witha haste prudery and lovers of formalism might term indecent.
Burned Bridges
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After what has passed between us, it would be prudery to refuse.
An Original Belle
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Now certain vices are opposed to shamefacedness, namely shamelessness and inordinate prudery.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) / Translated by ...
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And cheap journalism, cheap fiction, cheap prudery have not yet reached Spain.
Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories
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You, at one time, thought me guilty of some degree of prudery.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 8
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This advice didn't come from any religious prudery or sense of shame.
The Irish Times
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I thought to myself again: The horror of this superstition of prudery!
Sylvia's Marriage: A Novel
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This, then, is the reason of Susanna's seeming prudery-thepage, her lover!
A Book of Operas: Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music
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Ronca thought it was more a case of priority than prudery.
Packing for mars: the curious science of life in the void
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The abominable prudery and hypocrisy of the time lay behind the whole matter.
The Philistines
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The prudery of the school of DORAT would here be hissed.
Paris as It Was and as It Is / A Sketch Of The French Capital, I...
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His notion of chastity in no sense resembles this excessive prudery.
Life of St. Francis of Assisi
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