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Comstockery
[ kuhm-stok-uh-ree, kom- ]
noun
- overzealous moral censorship of the fine arts and literature, often mistaking outspokenly honest works for salacious ones.
comstockery
/ 藞k蕦m藢st蓲k蓹r瑟; 藞k蓲m- /
noun
- immoderate censorship on grounds of immorality
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 颁辞尘顎僺迟辞肠办顎卐谤 noun
- 颁辞尘路蝉迟辞肠办顎僫路补苍 adjective
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of Comstockery1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of Comstockery1
Example Sentences
鈥淐omstockery is the world鈥檚 standing joke at the expense of the United States,鈥 Shaw commented.
鈥淐omstockery has been given a new lease on life by this Congress,鈥 Ms. Schroeder, who died in March, mourned at the time in a floor speech.
George Bernard Shaw said America was suffering from 鈥淐omstockery.鈥
In 1905, George Bernard Shaw, the playwright, referred to censorship-happy moralism as 鈥淐omstockery鈥 in a letter to The New York Times.
Yet while chiding extreme libertarianism, Selbourne veers dangerously close to Comstockery in his tsk-tsking of noise that 鈥渕asquerades as music,鈥 gender fluidity, sperm banks, bad grammar, video plagiarists and other presumed vices.
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