old-maidish

Example Sentences

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In 1925, after his name had been most prominently mentioned, the Swedish Academy, with the old-maidish perversity for which it is famed, withheld the prize for a year, finally awarded it to George Bernard Shaw.

From Time Magazine Archive

Both sides made hesitant, amateurish use of TV, handicapped by their own fears of it, and by the old-maidish restrictions of the government-owned BBC.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is indeed a Bostonian, with a Harvard accent, a vaguely old-maidish face and a wardrobe of sedate grey suits.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bella shuddered at the words, and Sonnenkamp exclaimed,— "O Bella! noble soul, alone great among women, cast away all these European casuistries; with a single step put this whole, old-maidish Europe behind you!"

From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Auerbach, Berthold

What licks me," said I, "is the difference between this and the old-maidish tidiness of his other papers.

From Jaffery by Locke, William John