pruderies
- plural of prudery.
Example Sentences
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The impulse at the end of that entertaining series of pruderies was simply to call the author a liar and go home in disgust�or else not to believe that it was over at all.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The Bavarians have no false pruderies, no nasty little nicenesses.
From Europe After 8:15 by Benton, Thomas H.
"Startled the pruderies, you mean," he answered, bridling.
From The Heavenly Twins by Grand, Madame Sarah
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 James, Henry
