prudishness
- n excessive or affected modesty
- On the other hand, Gretchen Mol is so game and adorable as Page, so at ease with her own nakedness--not to mention so blithe in her disregard for everyone else's prudishness--that .
- The sweet little girl at Rydell High busts out of her prudishness and into a low-cut top and skin-tight Lycra pants with a jeweled buckle.
- These days, though, France is experiencing its own blush of youthful prudishness as an entire generation of younger French women says "Non, merci," to the summer tradition of .