Synonyms of nice-nellyism

nice-nellyism

noun

as in puritanism

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 & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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