old-maidish
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
It is no excuse to say that propriety is old-maidish, and that men like smart women, or that no harm is intended by their flirtations.
From Maids Wives and Bachelors by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
She broke off with a quick, old-maidish colour.
From The Lovely Lady by Grant, Gordon
