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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
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“Old-maidishness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/old-maidishness. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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