prudery

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But when you strip away the social conventions from which a show’s crisis develops — prudery, repression, outerwear, what have you — you leave the action unmotivated and unmoored.

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2023

She was dubbed by Time "the Mao Tse-tung of Women's Liberation," and rebutted by Mailer in his book "The Prisoner of Sex," in which he mocked her as "the Battling Annie of some new prudery."

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2017

This is a piece of prudery more worthy of Victorian England than Edouard Manet’s France.

From The Guardian • Jan. 18, 2016

That prudery and squeamishness lasted well into the 1940s and 1950s.

From Salon • Aug. 14, 2012

If all had gone well, and she had stepped into the dead one's place, she would, outwardly at least, have been henceforth as demure as prudery could desire.

From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Wingfield, Lewis