Nursing a wounded man is a woman's duty and, in view of that, prudery must retire to a corner.
Was it because the English prudery has disappeared in a corner?
It is well known that this strenuous and carefully paraded prudery of the higher classes (especially in England) is by no means reflected in the true condition of sexual morality in high quarters.
The children were delighted with the mere word tavern, which our modern prudery denounces with so much gusto.
His provincial or English prudery went so far as to detect envy in it, though in this he was certainly mistaken.
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.
French is now a superb instrument, while English is positively poorer than it was in the time of Shakespeare, thanks to the prudery of our illiterate middle class.
The simple circumstance that all bashful prudery and affectation of secrecy regarding natural matters will have vanished is a guarantee of a more natural intercourse of the sexes than that which prevails to-day.
We see, the opinions set forth by the great reformer are very radical and even immoral, when viewed in the light of our age, abounding with prudery and hypocrisy.
The unpardonable prudery that prevents mothers from speaking to their grown daughters about the important functions of sex, leaves them in a state of densest ignorance concerning their duties to their husbands and to themselves.
The hypocritical prudery and concealed lasciviousness of our day, that fears to call a spade a spade and to speak of natural things in a natural way, was foreign to that age.
The one fact alone, that the foolish prudery and secrecy connected with sexual matters will disappear, will make the relation of the sexes a far more natural and healthful one.
In England, the garden of Beauty is kept By a dragon of prudery placed within call; But so oft this unamiable dragon has slept, That the garden's but carelessly watched after all.
An even more curious instance of prudery came to my notice in Philadelphia several years ago.
But in certain quarters the change is viewed with alarm, and curious traces of the old prudery still survive.
Mrs. Manson Mingott screwed up her little mouth into a grimace of mimic prudery and twinkled at him through malicious lids.
Marrying tew suit other folks iz the prudery ov politeness; i should az soon think ov begging pardon ov a thorn, for running aginst it.
Prudery iz the remorse ov cunning that haz been foiled; and coquettry seems to be the abandon ov art and buty.
Love generally changes coquettry to sense, and prudery to sillyness.
Prudery and coquetry are extremes equally to be shunned, becauze both are equally disagreeable to our sex, and fatal to your reputations.
The civil wars and the Empire degraded the character of the people, and the exaggerated prudery of republican manners only served to make the rebound into vice the more irresistible.
Many forms of skin disease, being the result of sexual infections, are allowed to develop because prudery and other motives prevent the early investigation of the cause, and hence delay its prompt treatment and healing.
And yet the prudery of the age will hardly allow us poor women even this pleasure, innocent as it is.
Gillenormand's was a species of twilight soul, and prudery is a semi-virtue and a semi-vice.
The peculiarity of prudery is to station the more sentries the less the fortress is menaced.
This seems to me, I confess, mere prudery or else mistaken logic, starting from the quite unjustifiable proposition that nothing that is not found in the Chanson de Roland ought to be found in any chanson.
For our poor maligned Afra (in her prose stories at any rate, and most of her verse, if not in her plays) is an anticipated model of Victorian prudery and nicety compared with Pigault.
You will incur the censure of prudery and affectation, if you keep him at that distance which you have hitherto [kept him at.
You will incur the censure of prudery and affectation, even perhaps in your own apprehension, if you keep him at that distance which has hitherto >>> been your security.
Gerhard, remarks that prudery may be either caused or cured in children.
He protested, for instance, against that prudery which, as the sun of the classic world set, had begun to overshadow life.
The prurience and pruderywhich have poisoned sexual life in the past are alike rendered impossible.
Perhaps its intentions were good, but when the need came for precise knowledge a silly prudery has held it back, and it has left its children without viaticum.
The nineteenth century, which witnessed the triumph of timidity and prudery in this matter, also produced the first fruitful germ of new conceptions of nakedness.
Even from the religious point of view, prurient prudery is not justifiable.
I know that in the countries of exaggerated prudery there is much hidden corruption, more, one is sometimes inclined to think, than in less hypocritical countries.
It is also, Hellpach proceeds to point out, thus becoming more moral also, and much unwholesome prudery and pruriency is being done away with.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prudery" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: primness; smugness; stuffiness
