prudishly

Cruikshank prudishly reads, O you'll see what I'll do for you and she.

Am I then, I go on to ask, shocked, prudishly and conventionally, by the words themselves?

"Only in private," said Roger, rather prudishly.

After their marriage, he insists that she dress and behave more prudishly so that men are not so enamored of her.

The attorney frowned prudishly. '

Aiel were almost prudishly restrained in public.

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.

Cyclists sped past us for much of the way, given priority by computers that prudishly favor real human muscle power over mere dittos in a car.

Mr. Barman is a rap Woody Allen, self-deprecating and prudishly ribald.

Even today, American museums would probably shy from showing what Gertrude Stein prudishly (or was it excitedly?)

(Towel-clad male prostitutes in the public baths preen suggestively, then the film cuts, a bit prudishly, to a scholar who explains the mores of the times.)

But what's odd is how prudishly Orth writes about these matters, as if she's never dispatched a friendly interview request or agreed to keep a topic off limits.

The Editor of Debates prudishly excluded the quotation from the Official Report; the entry states only: "The Senator quoted from the book".

They both sighed in sympathy, and he laid his hand on hers, and they sighed again, and he removed his hand almost prudishly.

And when he turned back, he found that it lapped all the way around him, as though the scenery had prudishly waited for his back to be turned before it changed.

The show, prudishly sniffed Bruce Cain of Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies to The San Francisco Chronicle, is "classic adolescent male humor."

He quoted examples of supposed indecency from several books to ridicule the law; prudishly, his extracts were not reported verbatim, but as: "[The Senator quoted from the book.]"

That, in turn, made it possible for the first time to exchange cards anonymously, which is taken as the reason for the sudden appearance of racy verse in an era otherwise prudishly Victorian.

After municipal governments in several cities governed by National Action put pressure on Wonderbra to remove the billboards, several prominent leftists criticized the center-right party as intolerant and prudishly moralistic.

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.

He strode quickly across his bedroom, reveling in the lack of those arthritic pains which his previous body had begun to develop, and depressed the button, looking up at the screen, but prudishly keeping his own nudity out of range of the video-camera.

It is said that the Brewery did not like the name Ram Inn and prudishly renamed it 'the Cavalier' after claims that wounded royalist soldiers sheltered in Lutterworth following the Battle of Naseby in 1645.