Excessive or affected modesty.
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Examples for "prude "
Examples for "prude "
1 Although I was no prude , I recoiled from the thought of it.
2 The whole time he'd thought she was a prude , she wrote porn.
3 But you will seek in her a mistress, and find a prude .
4 The little prude 's son is fair; so was his father-fairand stupid.
5 But even the English teacher-whowas a prude - never scolded her for it.
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.
1 No Grundyism in Rhoda Nunn; no simpering, no mincing of phrases.
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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