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prudery

prooh duh ree

  • n  excessive or affected modesty

  • Before a healthy audience of some 2,000, he flailed clerical prudery, plumped for the healthy life and for good clean sex ("The sexes were never made to be separated.
  • Author Cecil Saint-Laurent accused the church of yielding to Anglo-Saxon standards of prudery.
  • But over the centuries, thanks to censorship and Victorian prudery, he fell out of fashion.

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