Synonyms for prudery
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : proo-duh-ree |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈpru də ri |
Top 10 synonyms for prudery Other synonyms for the word prudery
- chastity
- constraint
- coyness
- delicacy
- demureness
- diffidence
- discreetness
- firmness
- formality
- humbleness
- inhibition
- innocence
- lack of pretension
- lowliness
- meekness
- precision
- pretentiousness
- prudery
- puritanism
- quietness
- reserve
- rigor
- self-efface
- self-effacement
- snobbery
- tension
- timidity
- unobtrusiveness
- unostentatiousness
- unpretentiousness
Définition of prudery
Origin :- 1709, from prude + -ery and in part from French pruderie.
- The peculiarity of prudery is to multiply sentinels, in proportion as the fortress is less threatened. [Victor Hugo, "Les Misérables"]
- Some 20c. writers in English used extended form prudibundery, in many cases likely for contemptuous emphasis, from French prudibonderie "prudery."
- As in modesty : noun shyness
- As in priggishness : noun prudishness
- As in stiffness : noun inflexibility
- As in humbleness : noun modesty
- As in lowliness : noun modesty
- As in self-effacement : noun modesty
- This may seem like vanity or prudery; but no matter what it appears, if it be right.
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 8 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
- You, at one time, thought me guilty of some degree of Prudery.
- Extract from : « Clarissa: Preface, Hints of Prefaces, and Postscript » by Samuel Richardson
- Prudery is, so to speak, sexual modesty codified and dogmatized.
- Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel
- The prudery that was itself a sin had penetrated the armor of her innocence.
- Extract from : « The Shadow of a Crime » by Hall Caine
- It was difficult to associate Beth with the idea of prudery or affectation.
- Extract from : « The Vagrant Duke » by George Gibbs
- In avoiding French freedom, we often substitute an Anglo-American prudery.
- Extract from : « The Young Maiden » by A. B. (Artemas Bowers) Muzzey
- I'm sick of this prudery which throws its own hideousness over all it sees.
- Extract from : « The Hero » by William Somerset Maugham
- With their platitudes, their prudery, and their chastity, they make for death.
- Extract from : « An Anarchist Woman » by Hutchins Hapgood
- To affectation and prudery the French women are equally strangers.
- Extract from : « Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World » by Anonymous
- Ere night this jealous garment will have lost half its prudery.
- Extract from : « The White Chief » by Mayne Reid
Antonyms for prudery
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