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Перевод: prudish

[прилагательное]
не в меру стыдливый; не в меру щепетильный; ханжеский

Тезаурус:

1. The prudish Victorians attempted to divert attention from the overtly sexual nature of weddings and invented the cake as we now know and probably dislike it.
2. In a London wheelwright's family the grandmother had a crucial influence, in particular because the mother was "very prudish" on sexual matters.
3. As far as nudity was concerned they quickly accepted it in Josephine's act as it seemed such a natural part of her but their attitudes were quite prudish when confronted with the nudes backstage.
4. It was high time ad men abandoned their prudish stance and accepted the British public was ready to take the journey round that long hidden bend.
5. I'll have to risk you thinking I'm prudish and."
6. We Brits are terribly prudish and you may be, as I was, a little uneasy at first.
7. The G-BUM series appears to have been passed over - with G-BUMF and G-BUMP allotted some time ago we cannot believe the CAA has turned prudish in its old age!
8. The baby book gives us another glimpse into parents' and societies' attitudes towards girls' bodies with the comment that Alison is "prudish" about her body at ten, and the noting of her "slight breast development".
9. Also at ten and a half the baby book comments: "Is prudish about bodies".
10. So terribly serious and ignorant, and rather prudish like Sophie.
11. With its sparkle, its risque connotations (the prudish Mendelssohn was outraged at an early performance) and its bustling accompaniment, deftly played, it was proof again of Dame Joan's versatility.
12. They're all gauche and giggly in bed, by turns prudish and gushing, fidgety and frenetic one minute, in rigor mortis the next.
13. Surely "prudish" is simply a natural desire for privacy and separation which is an essential part of growing up; and surely having your parents writing about your breast development in a baby book is not very likely to make you feel unselfconscious about it!