prudishness

I guess he's right, for how else can you explain such prudishness?

"I think that's just prudishness on their part though," he said.

Or is it a sign of middle-aged prudishness to even pose such questions?

Since then, however, and largely because of cable, prudishness has clearly declined.

Maybe this new restraint appealed to most people, perhaps everyone felt more comfortable with prudishness.

The second is a strand of moral conservatism that borders on prudishness.

Now wasn't the time to suffer an attack of Puritan prudishness.

I disagreed, but arguing about my prudishness didn't seem productive.

If you come to town, the thinking goes, you may as well forget about prudishness and propriety.

Was Shawn blushing out of prudishness, as we are meant to infer?

She knew what she wanted, but Paul had a certain native prudishness and delicacy.

Modesty for David Viking has been hit with a touch of prudishness.

He had shown her some naughty drawings, to test her prudishness.

In recent years this was not due to the prudishness of the public, but out of fear for vandalism.

She has jaunty good sense as well as an angry streak of prudishness.

It was not possible to address prevention and disease transmission unless you could talk about sexual activities without prudishness or embarrassment.

It is strange to see rock-and-roll, so often a force against prudishness, take this puritanical turn.

This has nothing to do with "prudishness" and everything to do with "children".

Puzzling in a different way is a peculiar prudishness - so consistent that I have to assume it was deliberate policy.

But prudishness can be just as lethal.

At the start of his life, his prudishness led him to doubt his potential to be an actor.

No more mysteries or prudishness between us.

Mocking herself for her prudishness, she got out of bed, shivering as the cold air struck her.

Some suggest it's simply a product of our own continuing prudishness in our non-fictionalized lives.