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• 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 .

• primness
• prudery
• Grundyism

News & Articles

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• Midnight's Children: For Those Who Want the Gist of the Novel (and No More)
  One of the most beguiling of the many stories all knotted up in Salman Rushdie's brilliant, baggy, exhausting 1981 novel Midnight's Children concerns a lovelorn doctor, his beautiful patient, and that timeless exemplar of old-world prudishness: a sheet with a hole in it. The patient...
  July 2, 2013 - Broward-Palm Beach New Times

Quotes

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• Tishani Doshi in The Guardian
  India is a funny place because we have the most amazing texts on erotica and sexuality,says Doshi. "It's always been a very big part of our culture. But there's a sense of prudishness that we've inherited at some point along the way,...
• Jerzy Montag in Times Online
  It represents a moral rollback to the puritanism and prudishness of the 1950s,said Jerzy Montag, a Green Party MP who is trying to rally opposition in parliament. "The State is attempting to interfere in the most intimate sphere."