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

Populating the novel is the usual cast of characters, foremost among them the cop shop’s inimitable secretary, Agatino Catarella, who blends obsequiousness, prudery and verbal ineptitude into a patois all his own.

From Washington Post • Oct. 7, 2021

My objection isn’t rooted in prudery but in artistic tact.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2019

Some things were just plain unacceptable even when buttoned-up 1950s prudery was beginning its retreat.

From The Guardian • Oct. 6, 2012

But all this prudery extends no further than outward forms, and it would be a grand mistake to suppose that there is more morality in Russia than elsewhere.

From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Hell, Xavier Hommaire de