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单词 prudishness
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prudishprud‧ish /ˈpruːdɪʃ/ adjective Examples
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  • I think that is a prudish approach.
  • It wasn't that they were prudish, I could tell they'd heard it before.
  • Purists were quick to counter-attack accusations that the legislation threatened individual liberty and encouraged prudish self-satisfaction.
  • Take the case of the prudish Mr Parkinson, who attended the butterfly ballet.
  • These strict and prudish ideals were those of the austere Hejaz merchants.
  • They are also peculiarly prudish and voyeuristic.
  • We Brits are terribly prudish and you may be, as I was, a little uneasy at first.
very easily shocked by things relating to sex – used to show disapprovalprudery:  American culture is in many ways still fairly prudish.prudishly adverbprudishness noun [uncountable]
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