prudery

n.

拘谨，（尤指对性问题）大惊小怪；

复数：pruderies

1. The "Eastern"Mark Twain can be delicate to the point of prudery.
   “东部的”马克·吐温竟可以严谨到一本正经的程度。

Prudery
Prudery & Passion
Legal Prudery: The Case of Ulysses
Prudery in the Publication History of Goethe's Roman Elegies
Primers for Prudery: Sexual Advice to Victorian America
Mrs Grundy : studies in English prudery
Origins and Legacies of Irish Prudery: Sexuality and Social Control in Modern Ireland
Rescuing Sex from Prudery and Prurience: American Women's Use of Sex Education as an Antidote to Obscenity, 1925-1932
The Terrible Haystack Murder: The Moral Paradox of Hypocrisy, Prudery and Piety in Antebellum America
A dictionary of American and British euphemisms : the language of evasion, hypocrisy, prudery and deceit