Usually means: Excessive propriety in sexual matters.
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  1. pruderies: Merriam-Webster
  2. pruderies: Vocabulary.com
  3. pruderies: Wiktionary
  4. Pruderies, pruderies: Dictionary.com
  5. Pruderies: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. Pruderies: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. pruderies: FreeDictionary.org
  8. pruderies: TheFreeDictionary.com

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(Note: See prudery as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (prudery)

noun:  (uncountable) The condition of being prudish; prudishness
noun:  (countable) Prudish behaviour
▸ Also see prudery


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