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

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

From The Guardian • Jan. 18, 2016

I don't think so, my Lord; you offered a bonus on prudery, and hence you met nothing but coyness.

From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) by Lever, Charles James