Excessive or affected modesty.
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.
6 After what has passed between us, it would be prudery to refuse.
7 Now certain vices are opposed to shamefacedness, namely shamelessness and inordinate prudery .
8 And cheap journalism, cheap fiction, cheap prudery have not yet reached Spain.
9 You, at one time, thought me guilty of some degree of prudery .
10 This advice didn't come from any religious prudery or sense of shame.
11 I thought to myself again: The horror of this superstition of prudery !
12 This, then, is the reason of Susanna's seeming prudery - the page , her lover!
13 Ronca thought it was more a case of priority than prudery .
14 The abominable prudery and hypocrisy of the time lay behind the whole matter.
15 The prudery of the school of DORAT would here be hissed.
16 His notion of chastity in no sense resembles this excessive prudery .
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