prudery

And the arm of her prudery reached far into their marriage.

The life which I have led was not one which makes for prudery.

You know that prudery is only the other side of prurience.

Such reverse prudery may be the deepest generation gap ever.

Will there never be an end to this genteel middle-class prudery in America?

The days of prudery and prejudice are days gone by.

Will you lead the fight against hypocrisy and prudery?

For decades under Mao, prudery was the ideological fashion, at least out in the open.

There is, however, a tendency to keep prudery alive, in Britain anyway.

It was an era of public prudery and purity.

Their culture demanded prudery from their love in public manifestations.

He must have had a streak of prudery before that happened to give him the excuse to indulge it.

Stamp out every last bit of Victorian prudery and we will be free at last.

Prudery, she figured, is a deeply-rooted American trait that has little to do with art.

There are also overt manifestations of the prudery of the times.

You'd enjoy it, despite your initial prudery and reservations.

Nothing in Keral had prepared him for what seemed like prudery.

He understood now that these zones were not merely prudery, but necessary to the survival of the species.

Attitudes have consequences and the consequences of prudery are serious.

He did so not only to rehabilitate his fortune, but to combat censorship and prudery.

Had that been the prudery of a virgin?

Is there any need for false prudery among gentlemen?"

And a little old-fashioned prudery too, I expect.