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Significados de prudishness em inglês

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Excessive or affected modesty.

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Examples for "prudery"
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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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In the male that same fussiness develops, and a certain primness, too.
Cheerful—By Request
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Then she said with that forced precision, a sort of conscious primness:
Chance: A Tale in Two Parts
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His primness, if that is the right word, never altogether deserted him.
The Art of Letters
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Fanny recoiled at the idea with a primness that did credit to Winnebago.
Fanny Herself
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With a certain old-fashioned primness, they step sedately through the paths of childhood.
Fated to Be Free: A Novel
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No Grundyism in Rhoda Nunn; no simpering, no mincing of phrases.
The Odd Women
Uso de prudishness em inglês
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This, after all, is a society that's known for its prurience and prudishness.
The new yorker
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He was inclined to jeer at what he termed my prudishness.
The House / An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer,...
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Crisp himself is convinced this is down to residual Yankee prudishness.
The Guardian
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Given this prudishness, job seekers have a hard time knowing how to price their labor.
Wired
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At another time he might have been shocked, for he had depths of prudishness within him.
A Room with a View
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No one familiar with mediaeval literature will, however, be inclined to accuse its authors of prudishness.
The Mind in the Making: The Relation of Intelligence to Social R...
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Without a suspicion of prudishness there was always with her the natural dignity of the true-born gentlewoman.
The Romance and Tragedy of a Widely Known Business Man of New Yo...
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This is not a matter of prudishness.
The Irish Times
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But is that personal predilection or prudishness?
The Guardian
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I just don't fancy remaining trapped in an onyx bottle for eternity because of some bumpkin's prudishness.
Knight of the Demon Queen
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If you're easily queasy or prone to prudishness, it would be in your best interest to stop reading.
News.com.au
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Modern psychologists have shown that prudishness is not always an indication of exceptional purity, but rather the reverse.
The Mind in the Making: The Relation of Intelligence to Social R...
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There was no prudishness about her.
A Love Episode
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The writer contrasts this revelation about his mother's secret affair with his mother's prudishness when he was growing up.
The new yorker
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Paul also talks about his evening watching TV in Los Angeles and the strange outbursts of prudishness on TV3's Story.
Radio NZ
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No one, I imagine, will accuse the author of the INFERNO of an Early Victorian prudishness or a Podsnapian optimism.
Heretics
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