priggery

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Comstockery
Noun
  • And to err on the other side — the side of Comstockery — is fine with me.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 7 May 2025
  • That man died in 1915, leaving behind less a legacy and more a joke in the periodic usage of the term Comstockery to denote censorious impulses.
    Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2023
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“Priggery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/priggery. Accessed 20 May. 2025.

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