nice–nellyism

a tendency to care a great deal about seemly behavior and morals especially in sexual matters a misguided nice-nellyism prompted the city-owned art museum to cancel its scheduled exhibit on the nude in photography Synonyms moralism, nice-nellyism, prudishness, puritanismRelated Words Comstockery; old-maidishness, priggery, priggishness, primness; morality, virtueNear Antonyms lechery, prurience, pruriency; libertinage, libertinism; libertarianism