- prudery (prudishness)
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English-Macedonian dictionary. 2013.
prudery (prudishness)
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prudery — noun a) The condition of being prudish; prudishness b) Prudish behaviour Syn: prudishness … Wiktionary
prudery — noun excessive or affected modesty • Syn: ↑primness, ↑prudishness, ↑Grundyism • Derivationally related forms: ↑prudish (for: ↑prudishness), ↑prim ( … Useful english dictionary
prudishness — noun The condition of being prudish; prudery Syn: prudery … Wiktionary
prudery — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. propriety; prudishness, stiffness, coyness, primness, preciousness. See affectation. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. stuffiness, primness, priggishness, strictness; see behavior 1 , courtesy 1 … English dictionary for students
prudishness — noun excessive or affected modesty • Syn: ↑primness, ↑prudery, ↑Grundyism • Derivationally related forms: ↑prudish, ↑prim (for: ↑primness) … Useful english dictionary
prudish — adjective of excessive propriety; easily offended or shocked, especially by sexual matters See Also: prudery, prudishness … Wiktionary
false modesty — Synonyms and related words: Quakerishness, censoriousness, demureness, demurity, hideboundness, mauvaise honte, narrowness, overmodesty, priggishness, primness, prudery, prudishness, puritanicalness, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, smugness, stiff … Moby Thesaurus
primness — Synonyms and related words: Quakerishness, buckram, censoriousness, ceremonial, ceremoniousness, ceremony, demureness, demurity, dignity, extrinsicality, false modesty, form, formality, formalization, gravity, hideboundness, impersonality,… … Moby Thesaurus
sanctimony — Synonyms and related words: Pecksniffery, Quakerishness, Tartuffery, Tartuffism, bibliolatry, cant, censoriousness, charismatic gift, charismatic movement, charismatic renewal, demureness, demurity, empty gesture, false modesty, false piety,… … Moby Thesaurus
smugness — Synonyms and related words: Quakerishness, amour propre, autoeroticism, blandness, bovinity, butter, censoriousness, complacence, complacency, consequentiality, demureness, demurity, ego trip, fair words, false modesty, fulsomeness, glibness,… … Moby Thesaurus
stuffiness — Synonyms and related words: Quakerishness, THI, airlessness, antiquation, aridity, aridness, authoritarianism, barrenness, bigotry, blind side, blind spot, blinders, bloodlessness, callowness, cantankerousness, censoriousness, characterlessness,… … Moby Thesaurus
