Citations:pearl-clutchingly

Adverb

 * 2011, Trey Graham, "Degrees of silliness in a play about a play, and in an obscure French 'transladaptation'", Washington City Paper, 16 September 2011:
 * It will not distress anyone who saw Venus in Fur to learn that The Heir Apparent can be pearl-clutchingly saucy, nor will it surprise anyone who saw The Liar if I disclose that it’s a corkscrewy sort of comedy.
 * 2018, Kate Greathead, Laura & Emma, cover page quoting a review:
 * " raising a child alone in pearl-clutchingly radical in Kate Greathead's wryly observed, 1980s-set first novel.” —Vogue