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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I’d never elbow him off to crusades with my pruderies.
From The Saint's Tragedy by Charles Kingsley
The narrow theological spirit, the moralism à tout propos, the queer provincialities and pruderies, are mere wild weeds in a mountain of flowers.
From Italian Hours by Henry James
Without, as I perceived, hereditary breeding, and without conventional pruderies, she had a rare purity and elevation of feeling, which exerted a manifest and constant influence, sadly needed in a soldiers' hospital.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
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
Not, of course, that I have no pruderies, no fastidious metes and bounds.
From Europe After 8:15 by Thomas H. Benton
