Synonyms of Comstockery

Comstockery

noun

as in old-maidishness

Related Words

• old-maidishness
• priggery
• priggishness
• primness
• puritanism
• prudery
• nice-nellyism
• prudishness
• moralism
• morality
• virtue

Dissimilar Words

• lechery
• prurience
• pruriency
• libertarianism
• libertinism
• libertinage

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Comstockery

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

People started using ‘Comstockery’ to make fun of any kind of art or storytelling or writing or politics that was old-fashioned and puritanical. — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 28 Apr. 2023

In the early 20th century, this idea of Comstockery becomes really popular. — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 28 Apr. 2023