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单词 prudishly
释义
prudishly
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adv

WORD FAMILY
prudish: prudishest, prudishly, prudishness+/prude: prudery, prudes, prudish/prudery: pruderies
USAGE EXAMPLES
Joseph Torsella, the U.S. ambassador for management and reform, this week prudishly proposed that “negotiation rooms should in future be an inebriation-free zone.”
Washington Post(Mar 06, 2013)
Yet much of the media insists that makes us stubbornly selfish at best, prudishly insane at worst.
The Guardian(Feb 01, 2011)
In the past, some families might have treated talk of mental illness as taboo or prudishly avoided talk about cancer involving sexual organs.
Seattle Times(Jul 24, 2010)
adv in a prudish manner
she acts prudishly, but I wonder whether she is really all that chaste
Syn
puritanically
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