prudery
prooh duh ree
- n excessive or affected modesty
- Before a healthy audience of some 2,000, he flailed clerical prudery, plumped for the healthy life and for good clean sex ("The sexes were never made to be separated.
- Author Cecil Saint-Laurent accused the church of yielding to Anglo-Saxon standards of prudery.
- But over the centuries, thanks to censorship and Victorian prudery, he fell out of fashion.