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prudishness

[ UK /pɹˈuːdɪʃnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. excessive or affected modesty

How To Use prudishness In A Sentence

  • This persecution heralds the rise of the hate-mongering wolf dressed up in the sheep's skin of sexual prudishness.
  • Two decades after government-imposed prudishness ended with the Soviet collapse, Russians still shy away from embracing European-style sexual mores.
  • She is up against poverty of imagination, prudishness, bigotry and ladies locked into pain.
  • The prudishness was still present in some of the Victorian bathing costumes, but the mood was light-hearted in the mineral pools and blasting wall.
  • Ben "feels compelled" to follow through with the porning, apparently because he needs to prove (somewhat predictably) that his marriage is different, and not the steel cage Andrew makes it out to be; Andrew is anxious to acquire evidence that his lifelong rebellion against squaresville hasn't been a big joke, especially after an abortive tryst points up his own sexual prudishness. SpoutBlog
  • Her bitter sense of humour and prudishness masks her loneliness, anger and sense of displacement.
  • Two decades after government-imposed prudishness ended with the Soviet collapse, Russians still shy away from embracing European-style sexual mores.
  • The question for Lovelace, in Clarissa, is whether female virtue is more than prudishness: ‘whether her frost be frost indeed’.
  • Kits were designed to cover every inch of visible flesh but they survived long after such heavily mannered prudishness had deceased.
  • The virginal Mina (Cindy Marie Small) is no shrinking violent and is understandably exasperated by the Victorian prudishness of fiancé Jonathan Harker.
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