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| Main Entry: |
goody two-shoes
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | somebody smug and well-behaved |
| Synonyms: | Puritan, Victorian, goody-goody, prig, prissy, prude, prudish, straight-laced, upright |
| Main Entry: | goody-goody |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | straight-laced |
| Synonyms: | God-fearing, PC, Puritan, Victorian, goody two-shoes, holier-than-thou, moral, nice, pious, politically correct, priggish, prissy, prudish, self-righteous, unctuous, virtuous |
| Main Entry: | prissy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | particular and fussy |
| Synonyms: | Victorian, epicene, fastidious, finicky, genteel, goody-goody, goody-two-shoes, overnice, pansified, persnickety, picky, precious, prim, prim and proper, prudish, puritanical, sissified, sissy, squeamish, stickling, strait-laced, stuffy, tight-laced |
| Antonyms: | informal, unconcerned |
| Main Entry: | prude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prig |
| Synonyms: | Mrs. Grundy, Victorian, goody two-shoes, goody-goody, old maid, puritan |
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