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noun
Excessive or affected modesty.
synonyms: Grundyism, primness, prudery.
is a specific kind of: modestness, modesty.
derivation: priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian | mincing, niminy-piminy, prim, twee.
Dutch: preutsheidPolish: pruderyjność, pruderia
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