Prudish

a.

1.

Like a prude; very formal, precise, or reserved; affectedly severe in virtue; as, a prudish woman; prudish manners. A formal lecture, spoke with prudish face. - Garrick.

Adj.

1.

prudish - exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts" Synonyms: priggish, prissy, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian, puritanical, prim

Quakerish, Victorian, austere, censorious, choicy, choosy, conscientious, critical, decorous, demure, discriminating, discriminative, exacting, fastidious, formal, fussy, genteel, hidebound, meticulous, mid-Victorian, narrow, old-maidish, overmodest, particular, perfectionistic, picky, precise, precisianistic, priggish, prim, prissy, proper, punctilious, puristic, puritanic, puritanical, rigid, sanctimonious, scrupulous, selective, sensitive, severe, smug, squeamish, stern, stiff, stiff-necked, strait-laced, straitlaced, strict, stuffy

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