priggish
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
priggish
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
94 Moby Thesaurus words for "priggish":
Quakerish, Victorian, abusive, blackening, blameful, censorious,
choicy, choosy, condemnatory, condescending, conformist,
conscientious, contemptuous, critical, damnatory, demure,
denunciatory, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, derisive,
discriminating, discriminative, disparaging, exacting, execrating,
execrative, execratory, fastidious, formal, formalistic, fussy,
goody-goody, hidebound, high-hat, invective, inveighing,
judgmental, meticulous, mid-Victorian, narrow, nit-picking,
objurgatory, old-maidish, overmodest, particular, patronizing,
pedantic, perfectionistic, picky, precious, precise,
precisianistic, prig, prim, prissy, prudish, punctilious, purist,
puristic, puritanic, puritanical, reproachful, reprobative,
reviling, ridiculing, sanctimonious, scoffing, scrupulous,
selective, self-complacent, self-contented, self-esteeming,
self-loving, self-righteous, self-satisfied, sensitive, severe,
smug, sniffy, snippy, snobbish, snobby, snooty, snotty,
stick-in-the-mud, stiff-necked, strait-laced, straitlaced, strict,
stuffy, uptight, vilifying, vituperative
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