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

Are prudery and feminist orthodoxy the same thing?

From The Guardian • Aug. 28, 2014

But along with prurience and prudery, there’s outright oddness, too.

From Salon • Apr. 13, 2014

There is the same difference between moral art and the product of true genius, that there is between prudery and virtue.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany by Ingersoll, Robert Green