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Comstockery
Noun
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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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“Old-maidishness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/old-maidishness. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.
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