prudishness

Their modus operandi may have been dictated at least in part by personal fate, inherited traditions, or even prudishness.
Leur modus operandi peut avoir été dicté au moins en partie par le destin personnel, les traditions héritées, ou même la pudibonderie.
I don't know if it's naïveté or prudishness.
Je ne sais pas si c'est de la naïveté ou de la pudibonderie.
In those days, what we now consider prudishness was called respectability.
À cette époque, ce que nous considérons aujourd'hui comme de la pudibonderie s'appelait la respectabilité.
Her prudishness only concerns other people's behavior, then she does whatever she likes.
Sa pudibonderie ne concerne que le comportement des autres, ensuite elle fait ce qu'elle veut.
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