primness

  • 71straight-laced — adjective exaggeratedly proper my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn t approve of my miniskirts • Syn: ↑priggish, ↑prim, ↑prissy, ↑prudish, ↑puritanical, ↑square toed, ↑straitlaced, ↑ …

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  • 72straightlaced — adjective exaggeratedly proper my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn t approve of my miniskirts • Syn: ↑priggish, ↑prim, ↑prissy, ↑prudish, ↑puritanical, ↑square toed, ↑straitlaced, ↑ …

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  • 73strait-laced — adjective exaggeratedly proper my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn t approve of my miniskirts • Syn: ↑priggish, ↑prim, ↑prissy, ↑prudish, ↑puritanical, ↑square toed, ↑straitlaced, ↑ …

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  • 74straitlaced — adjective exaggeratedly proper (Freq. 1) my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn t approve of my miniskirts • Syn: ↑priggish, ↑prim, ↑prissy, ↑prudish, ↑puritanical, ↑square toed, ↑ …

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  • 75tight-laced — adjective exaggeratedly proper my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn t approve of my miniskirts • Syn: ↑priggish, ↑prim, ↑prissy, ↑prudish, ↑puritanical, ↑square toed, ↑straitlaced, ↑ …

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  • 76schoolteacherish — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ish adjective : resembling a schoolteacher or what a schoolteacher is felt to be; often : prissy, pedantic, finicky * * * /skoohl tee cheuhr ish/, adj. Disparaging. showing characteristics thought to be typical of a schoolteacher,… …

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  • 77primmy — primmy, a. rare. (ˈprɪmɪ) [f. prim a. + y1.] Tending to primness. [see governessy a.] …

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