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

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

From Salon • Aug. 14, 2012

The civil wars and the Empire degraded the character of the people, and the exaggerated prudery of republican manners only served to make the rebound into vice the more irresistible.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole