Crossword-Solution: PRUDERY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Prudery | n. | The quality or state of being prudish; excessive or affected scrupulousness in speech or conduct; stiffness; coyness. |
We have 22 clues for the answer “PRUDERY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Excessively prim behaviour | 1 answer |
| Extreme modesty. | 1 answer |
| Excessive modesty | 1 answer |
| CONDUCT of prudes | 1 answer |
| BEING a prude | 1 answer |
| genteelism | 3 answers |
| BLUE laws | 5 answers |
| pudency | 15 answers |
| pompousness | 17 answers |
| priggishness | 17 answers |
| prudishness | 17 answers |
| puritanic | 17 answers |
| Parading. | 18 answers |
| pedantry | 21 answers |
| pageantry | 25 answers |
| stuffiness | 27 answers |
| Modesty. | 28 answers |
| Pomp | 32 answers |
| pietism | 40 answers |
| primness | 42 answers |
| diffidence | 46 answers |
| Parade | 54 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PRUDERY (5)
Peignez donc les passions, vous aurez les sources immenses dont s’est privé ce grand génie pour être lu dans toutes les familles de la prude Angleterre.’ Does not Thackeray lament that since Fielding no novelist has dared to face the national affectation of prudery? No English author who valued his reputation would venture to write as Anatole France writes, even if he could.
The girl persisted in her prudery, nor did the youth, in fact, seem altogether free from a similar sort of shyness; so they sat apart from each other, gazing up the hill, where the moonlight discovered the tops of a group of buildings.
There was nothing mean or ungenerous in the young man's heart, and he was glad that his future wife should not be restrained by false prudery from being kind (in private) to her unhappy cousin; but to receive Countess Olenska in the family circle was a different thing from producing her in public, at the Opera of all places, and in the very box with the young girl whose engagement to him, Newland Archer, was to be announced within a few weeks.
Would she permit it, even if I could muster the courage to suggest it? Then I saw her frame convulse, shudderingly, her muscles reacting to her rapidly lowering temperature, and casting prudery to the winds, I threw myself down beside her and took her in my arms, pressing her body close to mine.
CHARLOTTE Though the giving the heart is one of the last of all laughable considerations in the marriage of a girl of spirit, yet I should like to hear what antiquated notions the dear little piece of old-fashioned prudery has got in her head.
Quotes with PRUDERY (3)
And there is my payment the rubies in your cheeks. Are you properly scandalized by your wicked behavior? If you were Catholic, you'd singe the ears of the priest you confessed to. Do you remember making me swear to repeat all those naughty actions agian, no matter what you said this morning?" Now that he brought it up, I did recall saying that. Great Betrayed by my own immorality. "God, Bones... some of that was depraved." "I'll take that as a compliment." He closed the dista…
When I was a youngster, all the progressive people were saying, “Why all this prudery? Let us treat sex just as we treat all our other impulses.” I was simple-minded enough to believe they meant what they said. I have since discovered that they meant exactly the opposite. They meant that sex was to be treated as no other impulse in our nature has ever been treated by civilized people. All the others, we admit, have to be bridled. Absolute obedience to your instinct for self-p…
I have finished Russell's Nightmares and must confess that they did not come up to expectation. No doubt it was my fault for expecting too much, knowing how unsatisfactory I find his philosophical views; but I had hoped that, at least, when he was not writing normal philosophy, he would be entertaining. Alas! I found his wit insipid, and his serious passages almost intolerable — there was something of the embarrassment of meeting a Great Man for the first time, and finding hi…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1954).