| Main Entry: |
old-maidish
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| 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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