pruderies

There are no big biographical revelations, the California editors tell me; simply the man plain, or as a newspaper put it in his own time: "without respect of persons or social conventions, institutions, or pruderies of any kind."

Steve Courtney: Anticipating Mark Twain's Never Before Seen Autobiography Steve Courtney 2010

She has stopped my mouth overlong with her pruderies and her scruples.

The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

He is diffuse and redundant; he is aloof and dreamy and in bondage to the old pruderies and conventions.

The Common Reader, Second Series 2004

Without, as I perceived, hereditary breeding, and without conventional pruderies, she had a rare purity and elevation of feeling, which exerted

The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

Some of the singular persons here affect vagaries and discuss pruderies or church matters, ethics and the like.

Brook Farm John Thomas Codman

Her pruderies and her abandonments of prudery afforded between them an atmosphere as unwholesome as it was easily possible for a man of fervent temperament to live in.

Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray

It ended, to the dressmaker's despair, in her draping her shoulders in a lace scarf and wearing kid gloves to her elbow; but though these pruderies might have spoilt her appearance at Dungemarsh Court, there was no doubt as to its effectiveness at the Woolpack.

Joanna Godden Sheila Kaye-Smith 1921

The whole subject of national pruderies, in both act and speech, remains to be investigated.

Chapter 4. American and English Today. 5. Expletives and Forbidden Words Henry Louis 1921

Not, of course, that I have no pruderies, no fastidious metes and bounds.

Europe After 8:15 George Jean Nathan 1920

The Bavarians have no false pruderies, no nasty little nicenesses.

Europe After 8:15 George Jean Nathan 1920