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prudishly
adverb
disapprovinguk /ˈpruː.dɪʃ.li/ us /ˈpruː.dɪʃ.li/
in a way that shows you are easily shocked by rude things, especially anything relating to sex: （对性问题）大惊小怪地，迂腐守旧地，伪善地
Victorian writers prudishly avoided this subject.维多利亚时代的作家基于对性问题的审慎，避开了这个话题。
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Everyone is still having affairs but we seem less prudishly shocked by them.
"Oh no wine, you need a clear head," she tells me prudishly.
The show is prudishly conventional compared to the experimental nature of his past work.
It is said that the Victorians prudishly covered table legs to avoid causing offence.
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