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Excessive or affected modesty
Answer for the clue "Excessive or affected modesty ", 11 letters:
prudishness
Word definitions for prudishness in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. excessive or affected modesty [syn: primness , prudery , Grundyism ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The condition of being prudish; prudery
Usage examples of prudishness.
Her sense of style was deficient: prudishness and femininity were awkwardly at odds in the high-necked dress, which concealed her throat but made provocative mounds of her small breasts.
She regarded his prudishness as a quaint minor foible, and she certainly did not want to disillusion or estrange him.
He stared with a stunned, avaunting lust which her exuberant prudishness both redirected and inflamed to new strength.