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| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | bluenosed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | genteel |
| Synonyms: | Victorian, priggish, prim, prim and proper, prissy, proper, prudish, puritanical, straitlaced |
| Main Entry: | old-maidish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | genteel |
| Synonyms: | Victorian, affected, aristocratic, artificial, bluenosed, chivalrous, civil, confined, courteous, courtly, cultivated, distingué, elegant, fashionable, formal, graceful, hollow, intolerant, la-di-da, mannerly, noble, ostentatious, polished, polite, pompous, precious, precise, pretentious, priggish, prim, prim and proper, prissy, proper, prudish, puritanical, refined, respectable, strait-laced, straitlaced, stuffy, stylish, urbane, well-behaved, well-bred, well-mannered |
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