Our prudery of speech is the natural result of the liberty permitted to women. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Impression of the Philippines] Reference
Fascination with technological achievement has been lost as surely as prudery at promiscuity. From Wordnik.com. [Kids don't care about the moon landings] Reference
No difficulty alarms them, and prudery is not allowed to give a voice in their choice of subjects. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 7, August 12, 1850] Reference
He speaks of these matters in the down right way of old times without any appearance of prudery, which is very different from our fastidious treatment of these subjects. From Wordnik.com. [The Beginnings of Christianity. Vol. I.] Reference
"I cannot affect," she says, "a prudery which is not natural to me.". From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
"prudery" began: the great lords yielded on this as on Free Trade. From Wordnik.com. [The Victorian Age in Literature] Reference
There is a difference between prudery and modesty. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series] Reference
At the same time, there is also a bizarre prudery. From Wordnik.com. [Leora Tanenbaum: Girl-Bashing and Its Consequences] Reference
They may nickname it prudery, if they will; but let us. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
True modesty is as far removed from coarseness as from prudery. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
To affectation and prudery the French women are equally strangers. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World] Reference
American and English, for our part, always take pride in such prudery. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
Didn't Libby's defenders once castigate Bill Clinton for committing prudery?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 8, 2007] Reference
He secretly despised his sister's prudery though he dared not acknowledge it. From Wordnik.com. [When Dreams Come True] Reference
Oddly, her wildest brother had a streak of prudery that extended only to her. From Wordnik.com. [The Seduction Of Sara]
A freedom, both from girlish frivolities, and old-maidish crabbedness and prudery. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
‘This display of Victorian prudery after last night is somewhat hard to take.’. From Wordnik.com. [The Carides Pregnancy]
Reine, without any prudery or nonsense, raised the wounded limb, and felt around cautiously. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Now certain vices are opposed to shamefacedness, namely shamelessness and inordinate prudery. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
I hate and despise myself for my littleness and prudery; why, he's a thousand times finer than I!. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Thou Gavest] Reference
In these days of prudery, almost all women of rank appear 'frappe a la glace', like a bottle of champagne. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Though he had little of the animal in him, and was never troubled by his appetites, he was quite free from prudery. From Wordnik.com. [An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times] Reference
This sounds like more than political correctness: It's smarmy Victorian prudery combined with post-Freudian egomania. From Wordnik.com. [Joan Z. Shore: Politically Correct Sex (For Women)] Reference
Kara Finnstrom reports, he was mugging for fans and signing autographs after yesterday's arraignment on prudery charges. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 8, 2007] Reference
Griffith observed how delicate and prudent his lovely wife was, without ostentatious prudery; and his heart was at peace. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866] Reference
'You mean, were they having a lot of bedtime fun?' broke in Sertorius coarsely, as if he were accusing Helena of prudery. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
A characteristic which distinguished them and which impressed Mrs. Pontellier most forcibly was their entire absence of prudery. From Wordnik.com. [The Awakening] Reference
Too stiff for him, as it turns out, with Peggy calling his bluff about her supposed prudery by insisting they work in the buff together. From Wordnik.com. [William Bradley: Mad Men Makes the All-Time Television Pantheon and Unspools Another Fine Episode] Reference
'What literary man has not regretted the prudery of Sprat in refusing to let his friend Cowley appear in his slippers and dressing-gown?'. From Wordnik.com. [Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles] Reference
The Duchess wrote a song upon Mailly, in which she reproached her, notwithstanding her airs of prudery, with an infidelity with Villeroi. From Wordnik.com. [The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency]
Closest thing to an old-school hit in their repertoire, if you ask me, but sabotaged, like all their best songs, by prudery about lyrics. From Wordnik.com. [The WELL: Casey Jones] Reference
When Sarkozy was running for the presidency in 2007, part of his charm was a refusal to bow to France's traditional prudery about wealth. From Wordnik.com. [Original Sin in France] Reference
She withdrew her hand after a time with a sudden hauteur and caprice of prudery, which was perhaps one of those delightful little ways to which. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.] Reference
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