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Significados de prudish em inglês
Exaggeratedly proper.
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Examples for "victorian"
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Under that plan, the Victorian state government would also tip in money.
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Mr Morrison's office than called the Victorian Government to control the damage.
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They converted the fine detached Victorian house back to a family home.
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All Victorian students across all year levels will return to at-home learning.
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But Professor Howden noted the Victorian Health Department does have that information.
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He saw Mzu, her small figure unmistakable in its prim business suit.
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The papers extended across the hall and into a prim, fleckless parlor.
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The house does not look so prim as it used to do.
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The small, prim, stylish mother looked quite regal in her aristocratic rage.
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There was a noticeable stiffening of the prim figure of Mrs. Gaston.
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I heard paper rustle, then Dew continued in his prissy, high voice.
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So thanks for your prissy little reminder but I already paid, right?
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When he spoke, he sounded truly prissy, enunciating vowels for utmost effect.
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The approach is latter-day Jane Austen, but prissy and without the style.
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A prissy looking listing agent was waiting, tapping his watch in admonition.
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Difficult, of course, for one of my naturally puritanical bent, but possible.
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Many young people are attracted to Salafism, a puritanical branch of Islam.
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I am sometimes inclined to be quite puritanical when defining the western.
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Too much tolerance too fast can produce a puritanical or fascist backlash.
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The character of the kirk was that of a democratic, puritanical theocracy.
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They are violent, and at the same time quite raw and priggish.
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The logical understanding must not be allowed to put on priggish airs.
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It can mean someone who seems annoyingly earnest, or priggish, or judgmental.
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There was really nothing priggish about this statement, however it may sound.
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As for sexual politics, Adam in Paradise Lost is a priggish patriarch.
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He said, She's so uptight and straitlaced-howcould she possibly understand you?
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You know-myideas are rather straitlaced,- Isupposeyou would say, Puritanical.
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She is an old-fashioned, old-world lady, with peculiar straitlaced notions of her own.
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I think critics today are a pretty straitlaced, sober lot.
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He was not straitlaced, or mealy-mouthed, or overburthened with scruples.
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Disney's fairytale has become the biggest grossing animation of all time, despite its straightlaced plot.
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I might not look like it, but when it comes to sex I'm pretty straightlaced.
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You have become marvelously straightlaced all at once.
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Those straightlaced sensibilities have been thrilled by beauty, and bathed in the grace and glory of the life around them.
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The times were not of the straightlaced order and no one expected from an actress wonders of chastity or conventionality.
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No one, I tell you, not even the most strait-laced or censorious.
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Old Mr. Cayley, though not the least strait-laced, was a religious man.
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Is a strait-laced negative from the Commission to echo back his neigh?
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Was he a strait-laced prig who disapproved of dancing, do you mean?
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Except maybe a strait-laced, touched-by-sadness investigator and a beautiful and recently fired broker.
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Grandfather Jonathan Forrest, the straight-laced Puritan, had died of a hunting accident.
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They were the straight-laced brethren who walked so erect that they leaned backward.
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I picked the most straight-laced, stereotypically boring thing that I could think of.
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Chappelle hilariously portrayed both artists against Murphy's straight-laced you-had-to-see-it-to-believe-it recollection.
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For such an apparently straight-laced man, Federed does seem to have some colourful supporters.
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Her dress was white damask, exceeding neat; but her stays seemed not tight-laced.
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Yet the tight-laced bodice of her gown and rounded breasts proved her a woman.
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A tight-laced chest and a good disposition cannot go together.
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In this, too, you will perceive the tight-laced lady taking a flight beyond the sublime philosopher.
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She herself was wearing the tight-laced, dark blue dress Aunt Bieja had given her so many years ago.
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They were low-heeled, square-toed boots, embellished with scrolls done in red thread.
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He wore the blood-red uniform and square-toed boots of a Parachute Ski Marine.
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There lay the sole difference, and the square-toed Leipzig burghers did not perceive it.
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Emily saw Maya's square-toed Mary Janes under her stall door.
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Not a square-toed Englisher's shoe but a rounded soft-heeled slipper.
Uso de prudish em inglês
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Some of it must go; the public are fools and prudish fools.
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And he was right as well, to think her prudish and overcautious.
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This can be surprising to the relatively prudish mainstream of previous generations.
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He did not look at her, but he did not seem prudish.
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We become more and more prudish as what we call civilization advances.
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God's not being prudish or puritanical in forbidding sex outside of marriage.
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His strength and his youth called to hers, expecting no prudish response.
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Nothing inflames prudish indignation like the sight of the naked human body.
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Shall I assist you now, and answer your prudish denunciations later?
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I had almost managed to forget, I said, feeling awkward and sounding prudish.
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I, however, had learned to keep my prudish observations to myself.
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It was a mere fact; therefore, why be prudish and affected about it.
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Some of them made me blush, and I'm not exactly prudish.
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They were essentials of propriety then-natural ,andnever viewed as prudish.
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He dared say that she was not as prudish with the methodist parson.
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The most prudish old woman would have found nothing to find fault with.
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