pudically

Definitions

In a pudic manner; prudishly.

Examples

“Visiting what the programme pudically calls "A famous rendezvous for beautiful women and wealthy lovers" -- the kind of place⟳ which in simple old London forces half the police into evening dress, with what result⟳ to the more imaginative of our younger officers Parliament discusseth not -- the Cornet beheld at a night-club Mlle.”

“And what that was may now be revealed, since the Fellows of All Souls have⟳ removed the Noli me tangere from the chapel roof, where Gilbert Scott1 once pudically hid it, and have⟳ actually cleaned it.”

“This recalls the Victorian embarrassment with utility, the decorative euphemism which sheathed chairs in antimacassars, pudically curtained table legs, and named railway engines after chivalric warriors; but there's more to it than that.”

“The man, who is about to remove⟳ the trousers which he is wearing over his boxing costume, looks at him in horror, and pudically retires behind a curtain to finish⟳ his perfectly modest disrobing.”

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