| 单词 | prudishly |
| 例句 | Indignant scholars have caricatured him as a middlebrow hack who brutally lopped away a tenth of the novel, prudishly censored its erotic passages, and forced Lawrence, in a huff, to take his next novel elsewhere. Sons and Lovers: a century on 2013-05-25T07:00:22Z We are losing the sense that it is possible to disagree violently and yet courteously, and that's what the conventions of parliamentary language are trying – however prudishly – to preserve. Is it unparliamentary to call someone a 'muttering idiot'? 2012-05-26T17:19:01Z Though that wasn’t the aspect of Allen’s identity that most confused them: “She looks so traditionally feminine that her foul mouth and bellicose nature are amusing surprises,” they wrote, prudishly. MIA and Lily Allen: staying loud in a world that silences women 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Later on, she would scandalize Hollywood and prudishly judgmental members of the U.S. ‘Ingrid Bergman — In Her Own Words’: an intimate glimpse of an icon 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z The accompanying problem is that the news has made it seem prudishly sanctimonious to discuss the mayoral race beyond Mr. Weiner’s comical perversions and arrogant evasions. Big City: For de Blasio, Weiner Scandal Eclipses Issues in Race 2013-07-27T00:02:34Z Yet much of the media insists that makes us stubbornly selfish at best, prudishly insane at worst. Can Jesse Ventura force a TSA submission? 2011-02-01T14:48:23Z The bull-terrier, disheartened by this immobility, sat on its haunches, and regarded the two doubtfully, perhaps prudishly disapproving. Heart of the Blue Ridge Sometimes, in a male hand, the verse bewails the cruelty of beauty and the sufferings of constant love; while in a female hand it prudishly confines itself to lamenting the parting of female friends. Bracebridge Hall Sometimes, in a male hand, the verse bewails the cruelty of beauty, and the sufferings of constant love; while in a female hand it prudishly confines itself to lamenting the parting of female friends. Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists He could remember how the two of them had splashed freely inside it for hours but were so prudishly careful that neighbors hosed off their grassy feet before entering with them. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America And this impression was abundantly confirmed by his subsequent experiences in the prudishly ugly precincts of St. Mary Magdalene. The Soul of a Child They prudishly despised the anatomic study of the human figure, of landscape and chiaroscuro. Literary and General Lectures and Essays I do not approve of them, I do not encourage them; I am prudishly delicate and sensitive, and I do not allow them to be used in my presence. The 30,000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories Anneke did not prudishly decline putting her own little hand in mine, though I got only the ends of two or three slender delicate fingers; and her colour increased as she bestowed this grace. Satanstoe All conversation on the subject of love had been prudishly avoided, as usual, by his parents and teacher. Yeast: a Problem Why, no yeoman's dowager could have acted more prudishly! The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 Don’t set up too prudishly and say that it is a pity that Mercy so far forgot herself as to make her little confidential boast. Bunyan Characters (2nd Series) Their manager, the old-maidish, thin man, who so prudishly didn’t even like to speak about the impure Jacobus, gave me the correct commercial view of the position. 'Twixt Land and Sea |
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