Or for prudishly hiding the fact that some astronauts come equipped with breasts?. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fashion - Why is always about the boobs?] Reference
Or are you like me, prudishly making the synapses fire while decidedly non-juiced?. From Wordnik.com. [February 2007] Reference
Am I then, I go on to ask, shocked, prudishly and conventionally, by the words themselves?. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of the Moth, and other essays] Reference
The New York Times just prudishly denounced the fun-loving Berlusconi, as "an aging Lothario.". From Wordnik.com. [Eric Margolis: Italy's Lover-in-Chief] Reference
'No,' Greg Simpson said, prudishly, seeing the job prospect disappear but feeling all the same superior. From Wordnik.com. [The Elvis Latte] Reference
My invisible charmer, who had -- it must be said, not very prudishly -- proposed for my hand, no sooner got possession of it, than. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
The bull-terrier, disheartened by this immobility, sat on its haunches, and regarded the two doubtfully, perhaps prudishly disapproving. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
They need to think through whether it helps their cause very much to seem thin-skinned and to act prudishly offended when we speak of superficial things. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference
How curious, though, that having rightly complained of this slip of mine, Hollander betrays his own carelessness when he suggests that I think of the Corbaccio as a "prudishly moralizing embarrassment to Boccaccio.". From Wordnik.com. [What Did the Decameron Do?] Reference
Why, no yeoman's dowager could have acted more prudishly!. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1] Reference
Don't set up too prudishly and say that it is a pity that. From Wordnik.com. [Bunyan Characters (2nd Series)] Reference
Eastern Europe, once prudishly communist, is pockmarked with streetwalkers and whorehouses. From Wordnik.com. [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference
They prudishly despised the anatomic study of the human figure, of landscape and chiaroscuro. From Wordnik.com. [Literary and General Lectures and Essays] Reference
Public service ads on state-run television promoting condom use are rare - and prudishly indirect. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference
I was one of those cheering the scene on while my own partner at the time prudishly edged towards the exit. From Wordnik.com. [The Evening Class] Reference
I do not approve of them, I do not encourage them; I am prudishly delicate and sensitive, and I do not allow them to be used in my presence. From Wordnik.com. [The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories] Reference
Their manager, the old-maidish, thin man, who so prudishly didn't even like to speak about the impure Jacobus, gave me the correct commercial view of the position. From Wordnik.com. ['Twixt Land and Sea] Reference
Anneke did not prudishly decline putting her own little hand in mine, though I got only the ends of two or three slender delicate fingers; and her colour increased as she bestowed this grace. From Wordnik.com. [Satanstoe] Reference
Sometimes, in a male hand, the verse bewails the cruelty of beauty and the sufferings of constant love; while in a female hand it prudishly confines itself to lamenting the parting of female friends. From Wordnik.com. [Bracebridge Hall] Reference
Sometimes, in a male hand, the verse bewails the cruelty of beauty, and the sufferings of constant love; while in a female hand it prudishly confines itself to lamenting the parting of female friends. From Wordnik.com. [Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists] Reference
The Bellboy (1960), Stanley (Lewis), realizing on entering a room that he is surrounded with female models in negligees, crosses to the foreground and prudishly covers the camera lens with the palm of his hand. From Wordnik.com. [Mystery Man on Film] Reference
"allowed" the prudishly incoherent (or is it incoherently prudish?). From Wordnik.com. [News Hounds] Reference
You don’t prudishly put your tongue between your teeth and bite it. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Chatterley's Lover] Reference
The attorney frowned prudishly. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Edge] Reference
As prudes, who prudishly declare. From Wordnik.com. [Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered)] Reference
Not paraded, nor prudishly hidden. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857] Reference
Though Christ-church long kept prudishly away. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2] Reference
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