How To Use prudery In A Sentence
- A single incident suggests a great deal about Hennepinhis prudery, his belligerence, his sensitivity.
- Victorian prudery did the rest, followed in quick succession by an unhealthy determination to class sexual congress as obscene and therefore not to be discussed, far less celebrated.
- They went on to accuse the by-then dead Sherburn of sloppy scholarship, slovenliness in proofreading, deception, ruthless and clumsy editing, prudery, censorship, and the hostile trivialization of a great work of Western literature.
- A freedom, both from girlish frivolities, and old-maidish crabbedness and prudery. The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
- My point is just that I understand why some might use the word punish, because they see a correlation between religion-inspired prudery and lifestyle condemnation and religion-inspired rejection of abortion rights. Punishment
- His considerable discussions of sexuality are conspicuously free from prudery, so frank that he feared being read by people whose minds were unequal to the seriousness of the subject.
- Mistress Dearmer led the laughter at what she termed Barbara's country manners and prudery. The Brown Mask
- Prudery, Mrs Grundy, sexual repression - all coexisting with industrial-scale prostitution, alcholism and adultery. Those Victorian Values ...
- She brought to Russia not only the haemophilic gene of her grandmother, but a sincere prudery, a deeply religious mind, and a repugnance for the rituals and empty pomp of court life.
- Is this progress, or was Victorian prudery preferable to modern rudery? Archive 2009-07-19