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The reason he’s found himself cast in this public drama as the humorless square, the Comstockian scold, is that while labeling something parody might be bad for comedy, it can be essential for credibility.

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2022

The Viennese method of dealing with immoral publications differs somewhat from the Comstockian* method.

From Time Magazine Archive

One pities the jurisconsult who is condemned, by Comstockian clamour, to plough through such a novel.

From A Book of Prefaces by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)

I should add also that the Comstockian imbecilities described in Chapter IV are still going on, and that the general trend of American legislation and jurisprudence is toward their indefinite continuance.

From A Book of Prefaces by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)

Yet it is not long since Mr. Whitman was made the target of the “prurient prudes,” who carry on the Comstockian movement of the Vice Society, and was ordered to expunge some of his writings.

From Buchanan's Journal of Man, November 1887 Volume 1, Number 10 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)