prudish

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

prudish
    adj 1: exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't
           approve of my miniskirts" [syn: {priggish}, {prim},
           {prissy}, {prudish}, {puritanical}, {square-toed},
           {straitlaced}, {strait-laced}, {straightlaced},
           {straight-laced}, {tight-laced}, {victorian}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Prudish \Prud"ish\, a.
   Like a prude; very formal, precise, or reserved; affectedly
   severe in virtue; as, a prudish woman; prudish manners.
   [1913 Webster]

         A formal lecture, spoke with prudish face. --Garrick.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

51 Moby Thesaurus words for "prudish":
      Quakerish, Victorian, austere, censorious, choicy, choosy,
      conscientious, critical, decorous, demure, discriminating,
      discriminative, exacting, fastidious, formal, fussy, genteel,
      hidebound, meticulous, mid-Victorian, narrow, old-maidish,
      overmodest, particular, perfectionistic, picky, precise,
      precisianistic, priggish, prim, prissy, proper, punctilious,
      puristic, puritanic, puritanical, rigid, sanctimonious, scrupulous,
      selective, sensitive, severe, smug, squeamish, stern, stiff,
      stiff-necked, strait-laced, straitlaced, strict, stuffy