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Example sentences for: prudery

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One notes today, though, that American prudery might have had some effect in Britain, where one now encounters cockerel as often as cock in direct reference to male bird.
I suspect Shawn did not blush at the "cunty fingers" remark out of prudery.
It seems to me that the political correctness movement is a natural descendant of the recurrent spasms of prudery that have assaulted our language over the centuries.
It is many years since my contemporaries and I got a kick out of seeing even the bowdlerized f**k in print (in Partridge's Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English , 1935), and fug in Mailer's The Naked and the Dead allowed prudery to mock itself.
It is not clear whether this is an example of prudery or of prurience, which has been exemplified by such new-editor innovations as the magazine's long excerpt from The Story of O and a cover featuring a man's crotch.