What is "prudishness"

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.