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old-maidish
adjective as in primly particular; fastidious
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People had laughed at him for being so old-maidish, as they put it.
But Frieda was looking the other way, and Margaret travelled on to town feeling solitary and old-maidish.
Spiteful people said, that Lily was beginning to look old-maidish, but I never saw it in her calm face.
A freedom, both from girlish frivolities, and old-maidish crabbedness and prudery.
Alma, so said Exeter people, was becoming unsociable and old maidish.
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On this page you'll find 45 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to old-maidish, such as: particular, careful, fastidious, finical, finicking, and finicky.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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