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Перевод: prudery

[существительное]
притворная стыдливость; излишняя щепетильность

Тезаурус:

1. Such prudery was simply offensive foolishness; an attack on God's gifts and creation, against which Leonard set himself solidly.
2. Perhaps it was that, or frustration, or, more probable still, a queer kind of prudery - he would rather his mother thought him a brute than realize what we had been up to - that made him hit me.
3. For those raised in the prudery of puritanism or the celibacy-conscious preoccupations of Catholicism this ran against the grain.
4. His body yearned for her; once she was his wife she would lose her prudery, as all properly brought up young women did; and they would wed and bed, like the two in the song.
5. He had fled the invading Germans, only to find himself in a society he hated for its philistinism and prudery.
6. Honestly, it's not prudery.
7. But this should not obscure from us the fact that Judaism resisted stoutly the prudery that stultified sexuality throughout the West, and always retained a high and honoured place for bodily functioning and its pleasures - as becomes indeed, a gift from God: "Man and woman are one body and one soul, (oneness reasserted, as ever), and it is this powerful union which it projects and enhances.
8. In his analysis of the popular culture which appeared among the promoters of the Pro-Life Campaign, set up to achieve a constitutional ban on abortion in the Republic in 1983, O'Carroll pin-points certain characteristics, which can be abbreviated here: a monolithic and absolute view of the world, with its accompanying intolerance, derived in part from the direct consultation of clerics and politicians on public moral issues and the subsequent failure to develop an ethos of public debate; a localized belief system, rooted in family and communal authority and issuing in a spirit of absolute conformity; sexual prudery, a product partly of the inheritance problem; and the development of acute anxiety when such beliefs - inhering partly as they do in their practice and shaping of society - are threatened.
9. Against the backcloth of conventional Victorian prudery, the writer and publisher Mary Wilson stood as a champion for women's sexual liberation.
10. The Victorians, of course, for all their virtues, had an edge of prudery which made them condemn in public that which they were busy practising in private.
11. Morrissey, formerly lead singer of the Smiths and now a solo artist, is the central figure in this demi-monde and he has successfully mounted a long career based on a delightfully British blend of prurience and prudery.
12. In fact what the same tabloid, in a characteristic retreat into prudery, terms "the sexual act" was never more than a terminus ad quem for us.
13. Surely, they feel, youthful vigour should outgun out-of-date prudery.