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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Priggish \Prig"gish\, a.
   Like a prig; conceited; pragmatical. -- {Prig"gish*ly}, adv.
   -- {Prig"gish-ness}, n.
   [1913 Webster]
    
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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