Prudery is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 96 anagrams from letters in prudery (deprruy).
From the French word pruderie, dating back to 1700-10. See prude, -ery
To affectation and prudery the French women are equally strangers.
I'm sick of this prudery which throws its own hideousness over all it sees.
You, at one time, thought me guilty of some degree of prudery.
The prudery that was itself a sin had penetrated the armor of her innocence.
With their platitudes, their prudery, and their chastity, they make for death.
It was difficult to associate Beth with the idea of prudery or affectation.
These were men of their time, and their aesthetic interest in the ancient world was throttled by Christian prudery.
In avoiding French freedom, we often substitute an Anglo-American prudery.
This may seem like vanity or prudery; but no matter what it appears, if it be right.
prudery is, so to speak, sexual modesty codified and dogmatized.