prudery
noun
excessive propriety or modesty in speech, conduct, etc.
pruderies
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pluralof prudery.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Forget wholly and for ever all small pruderies, and remember that you cannot change ancestral feelings of right and wrong without what is practically soul-murder.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) by Andrew Lang
They catch the idea readily and practice their teachers' precisions and pruderies upon the family.
From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Jane Addams
Marriage had surely subtly changed her, giving back to her desires, prejudices, even pruderies of feeling that she had thought she had got rid of for ever long ago.
From Bella Donna A Novel by Robert Smythe Hichens
She stands, the representative of the ethical level of the age, not of fixed pruderies.
From Without Prejudice by Israel Zangwill
Her remark in reference to the servants showed him how far she was from any conventional pruderies.
From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Amélie Rives
