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Adjectives (12)
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priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian
adj. exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
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dainty, mincing, niminy-piminy, prim, twee
adj. affectedly dainty or refined
fastidious
adj. giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness; "a fastidious and incisive intellect"; "fastidious about personal cleanliness"
academic, donnish, pedantic
adj. marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects
dainty, nice, overnice, prissy, squeamish
adj. excessively fastidious and easily disgusted; "too nice about his food to take to camp cooking"; "so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow"
sedate, staid
adj. characterized by dignity and propriety
serious
adj. concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities; "a serious student of history"; "a serious attempt to learn to ski"; "gave me a serious look"; "a serious young man"; "are you serious or joking?"; "Don't be so serious!"
steady
adj. not subject to change or variation especially in behavior; "a steady beat"; "a steady job"; "a steady breeze"; "a steady increase"; "a good steady ballplayer"
artificial, contrived, hokey, stilted
adj. artificially formal; "that artificial humility that her husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"
grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous
adj. puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
ethical, honorable, honourable
adj. adhering to ethical and moral principles; "it seems ethical and right"; "followed the only honorable course of action"
coy, demure, overmodest
adj. affectedly modest or shy especially in a playful or provocative way
rigorous, strict
adj. rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard; "rigorous application of the law"; "a strict vegetarian"
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becoming, comely, comme il faut, decent, decorous, seemly
adj. according with custom or propriety; "her becoming modesty"; "comely behavior"; "it is not comme il faut for a gentleman to be constantly asking for money"; "a decent burial"; "seemly behavior"
correct, right
adj. socially right or correct; "it isn't right to leave the party without saying goodbye"; "correct behavior"
correct, right
adj. in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure; "what's the right word for this?"; "the right way to open oysters"
fitting
adj. in harmony with the spirit of particular persons or occasion; "We have come to dedicate a portion of that field...It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this"
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puritanical
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