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Meanings of Grundyism in английском
Synonyms
Examples for "prudery"
Examples for "prudery"
1
America has only recently lost its prudery and censorious cast of mind.
2
The others indulged in no such prudery on so hot a night.
3
Happily the day is passing when prudery governed the discussion of sex.
4
Much prudery and false modesty, for instance, has gone by the board.
5
At once-witha haste prudery and lovers of formalism might term indecent.
1
In the male that same fussiness develops, and a certain primness, too.
2
Then she said with that forced precision, a sort of conscious primness:
3
His primness, if that is the right word, never altogether deserted him.
4
Fanny recoiled at the idea with a primness that did credit to Winnebago.
5
With a certain old-fashioned primness, they step sedately through the paths of childhood.
1
This, after all, is a society that's known for its prurience and prudishness.
2
He was inclined to jeer at what he termed my prudishness.
3
Crisp himself is convinced this is down to residual Yankee prudishness.
4
Given this prudishness, job seekers have a hard time knowing how to price their labor.
5
At another time he might have been shocked, for he had depths of prudishness within him.
Usage of Grundyism in английском
1
No Grundyism in Rhoda Nunn; no simpering, no mincing of phrases.