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Значения термина prudish на английском

Exaggeratedly proper.

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Some of it must go; the public are fools and prudish fools.
Plain Tales from the Hills
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And he was right as well, to think her prudish and overcautious.
The Golem and the Jinni
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This can be surprising to the relatively prudish mainstream of previous generations.
The Guardian
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He did not look at her, but he did not seem prudish.
The Scar
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We become more and more prudish as what we call civilization advances.
The Emancipated
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God's not being prudish or puritanical in forbidding sex outside of marriage.
The myth of a christian religion: losing your religion for the b...
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His strength and his youth called to hers, expecting no prudish response.
The Longest Journey
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Nothing inflames prudish indignation like the sight of the naked human body.
The Irish Times
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Shall I assist you now, and answer your prudish denunciations later?
Existence
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I had almost managed to forget, I said, feeling awkward and sounding prudish.
Flesh and bone: a body farm novel
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I, however, had learned to keep my prudish observations to myself.
The Kingmaker
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It was a mere fact; therefore, why be prudish and affected about it.
The Head of the House of Coombe
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Some of them made me blush, and I'm not exactly prudish.
The Book of Life
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They were essentials of propriety then-natural ,andnever viewed as prudish.
Chantry House
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He dared say that she was not as prudish with the methodist parson.
Two Years Ago, Volume I
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The most prudish old woman would have found nothing to find fault with.
The Grip of Desire: The Story of a Parish-Priest
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