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Victorian
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a person who lived during the reign of Victoria
typical of the moral standards or conduct of the age of Queen Victoria
of or relating to Queen Victoria of Great Britain or to the age in which she ruled; "Victorian morals"
related words >
Gothic
,
Quakerish
,
antediluvian
,
antiquated
,
antique
,
archaic
,
bluenose
,
censorious
,
classical
,
demure
,
fossil
,
fossilized
,
genteel
,
goody-goody
,
grown old
,
hidebound
,
medieval
,
mid-Victorian
,
narrow
,
of other times
,
old maid
,
old-fashioned
,
old-maidish
,
old-world
,
overmodest
,
petrified
,
prig
,
priggish
,
prim
,
prissy
,
prude
,
prudish
,
puritan
,
puritanical
,
sanctimonious
,
smug
,
starchy
,
stiff-necked
,
straitlaced
,
stuffy
,
superannuated
prim
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dress primly
contract one's lips; "She primmed her lips after every bite of food"
assume a prim appearance; "They mince and prim"
related words >
Quakerish
,
Victorian
,
bluenosed
,
buckram
,
censorious
,
ceremonial
,
ceremonious
,
chipper
,
conventional
,
correct
,
decorous
,
demure
,
formal
,
genteel
,
hidebound
,
in buckram
,
mid-Victorian
,
narrow
,
neat
,
nice
,
old-maidish
,
orderly
,
overmodest
,
precise
,
prig
,
priggish
,
prissy
,
proper
,
prudish
,
puritanical
,
rigid
,
sanctimonious
,
shipshape
,
smug
,
snug
,
spick-and-span
,
starch
,
starched
,
stiff
,
stiff-necked
,
stilted
,
straight
,
straitlaced
,
stuffy
,
tidy
,
trim
,
uncluttered
,
well-groomed
,
wooden
prudish
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related words >
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
sanctimonious
collapse
related words >
Pecksniffian
,
Quakerish
,
Tartuffian
,
Tartuffish
,
Victorian
,
affected
,
canting
,
censorious
,
deceiving
,
demure
,
false
,
fanatical
,
goody
,
goody-goody
,
hidebound
,
holier-than-thou
,
hypocritic
,
hypocritical
,
insincere
,
mealy-mouthed
,
mealymouthed
,
mid-Victorian
,
narrow
,
oily
,
old-maidish
,
overdevout
,
overmodest
,
overreligious
,
overrighteous
,
overzealous
,
pecksniffian
,
pharisaic
,
pharisaical
,
pharisean
,
pietistic
,
pious
,
priggish
,
prim
,
prudish
,
puritanical
,
sanctified
,
self-righteous
,
simon-pure
,
smug
,
sniveling
,
snuffling
,
stiff-necked
,
straitlaced
,
stuffy
,
ultrareligious
,
unctuous
,
zealotic
,
zealous
demure
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related words >
Quakerish
,
Victorian
,
backward
,
bashful
,
censorious
,
close
,
confused
,
conscious
,
coy
,
decent
,
decorous
,
diffident
,
earnest
,
formal
,
frowning
,
grave
,
grim
,
grim-faced
,
grim-visaged
,
hidebound
,
inarticulate
,
long-faced
,
mid-Victorian
,
modest
,
mousy
,
narrow
,
nice
,
old-maidish
,
overmodest
,
priggish
,
prim
,
proper
,
prudish
,
puritanical
,
reserved
,
reticent
,
retiring
,
sanctimonious
,
sedate
,
seemly
,
self-conscious
,
serious
,
shamefaced
,
shamefast
,
shy
,
silent
,
skittish
,
smug
,
sober
,
sober-minded
,
sobersided
,
solemn
,
somber
,
staid
,
stammering
,
stiff-necked
,
stone-faced
,
straight-faced
,
straitlaced
,
stuffy
,
thoughtful
,
timid
,
timorous
,
unassertive
,
unassured
,
unsmiling
,
weighty
mid Victorian
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related words >
Gothic
,
Methuselah
,
Quakerish
,
Victorian
,
antediluvian
,
antiquated
,
antique
,
archaic
,
back number
,
bluenose
,
censorious
,
classical
,
conservative
,
dad
,
demure
,
dodo
,
elder
,
fogy
,
fossil
,
fossilized
,
fud
,
fuddy-duddy
,
goody-goody
,
granny
,
grown old
,
has-been
,
hidebound
,
longhair
,
matriarch
,
medieval
,
mossback
,
narrow
,
of other times
,
old believer
,
old crock
,
old dodo
,
old fogy
,
old liner
,
old maid
,
old man
,
old poop
,
old woman
,
old-maidish
,
old-timer
,
old-world
,
overmodest
,
patriarch
,
petrified
,
pop
,
pops
,
prig
,
priggish
,
prim
,
prude
,
prudish
,
puritan
,
puritanical
,
reactionary
,
regular old fogy
,
relic
,
sanctimonious
,
smug
,
square
,
starets
,
stick-in-the-mud
,
stiff-necked
,
straitlaced
,
stuffy
,
superannuated
,
traditionalist
stiff necked
collapse
related words >
Quakerish
,
Victorian
,
balking
,
balky
,
bigoted
,
bulldogged
,
bulletheaded
,
bullheaded
,
case-hardened
,
censorious
,
demure
,
dogged
,
dogmatic
,
erect
,
fanatic
,
hardheaded
,
headstrong
,
hidebound
,
house-proud
,
independent
,
intolerant
,
intractable
,
mid-Victorian
,
mulish
,
narrow
,
obstinate
,
old-maidish
,
opinionated
,
overmodest
,
overzealous
,
persevering
,
pertinacious
,
pigheaded
,
prideful
,
priggish
,
prim
,
proud
,
proud as Lucifer
,
proud-blooded
,
proud-looking
,
proud-minded
,
proud-spirited
,
proudful
,
proudhearted
,
prudish
,
puritanical
,
purse-proud
,
refractory
,
restive
,
sanctimonious
,
self-confident
,
self-esteeming
,
self-reliant
,
self-respecting
,
self-sufficient
,
self-willed
,
set
,
smug
,
straitlaced
,
strong-willed
,
strongheaded
,
stubborn
,
stuffy
,
sulky
,
sullen
,
tenacious
,
uncooperative
,
unregenerate
,
unyielding
,
willful
puritanical
collapse
of or relating to Puritans or Puritanism
related words >
Albigensian
,
Catharist
,
Franciscan
,
Quakerish
,
Sabbatarian
,
Trappist
,
Victorian
,
Waldensian
,
abstinent
,
anchoritic
,
ascetic
,
austere
,
bigoted
,
censorious
,
choicy
,
choosy
,
conscientious
,
creedbound
,
critical
,
demure
,
discriminating
,
discriminative
,
dogmatic
,
dour
,
eremitic
,
evangelical
,
exacting
,
fastidious
,
firm
,
flagellant
,
fundamentalist
,
hard
,
hidebound
,
hyperorthodox
,
impliable
,
inexorable
,
inflexible
,
iron
,
ironbound
,
ironclad
,
ironhanded
,
literalist
,
literalistic
,
mendicant
,
meticulous
,
mid-Victorian
,
muscle-bound
,
narrow
,
obdurate
,
obstinate
,
old-maidish
,
orthodox
,
overmodest
,
particular
,
perfectionistic
,
picky
,
precise
,
precisianist
,
precisianistic
,
priggish
,
prim
,
procrustean
,
prudish
,
punctilious
,
purist
,
puristic
,
puritan
,
puritanic
,
relentless
,
rigid
,
rigorist
,
rigoristic
,
rigorous
,
rockbound
,
sanctimonious
,
scrupulous
,
selective
,
self-denying
,
sensitive
,
smug
,
staunch
,
stiff
,
stiff-necked
,
straightlaced
,
straitlaced
,
strict
,
stubborn
,
stuffy
,
unbending
,
uncompromising
,
unrelenting
,
unyielding
,
wedded to poverty
censorious
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harshly critical or expressing censure; "was censorious of petty failings"
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Quakerish
,
Victorian
,
abusive
,
accusatory
,
back-biting
,
belittling
,
bitchy
,
blackening
,
blameful
,
calumniatory
,
calumnious
,
captious
,
carping
,
catty
,
caviling
,
chiding
,
choicy
,
choosy
,
condemnatory
,
conscientious
,
contemptuous
,
contumelious
,
critic
,
critical
,
damnatory
,
defamatory
,
demure
,
denunciatory
,
deprecative
,
deprecatory
,
depreciative
,
depreciatory
,
derisive
,
derisory
,
derogative
,
derogatory
,
detractory
,
discriminating
,
discriminative
,
disparaging
,
exacting
,
execrating
,
execrative
,
execratory
,
fastidious
,
faultfinding
,
hidebound
,
hypercritical
,
invective
,
inveighing
,
judgmental
,
libelous
,
meticulous
,
mid-Victorian
,
minimizing
,
narrow
,
objurgatory
,
old-maidish
,
overcritical
,
overmodest
,
particular
,
pejorative
,
perfectionistic
,
picky
,
precise
,
precisianistic
,
priggish
,
prim
,
proscriptive
,
prudish
,
punctilious
,
puristic
,
puritanic
,
puritanical
,
reproachful
,
reprobative
,
reviling
,
ridiculing
,
sanctimonious
,
scandalous
,
scoffing
,
scrupulous
,
scurrile
,
scurrilous
,
selective
,
sensitive
,
slanderous
,
slighting
,
smug
,
stiff-necked
,
straitlaced
,
strict
,
stuffy
,
vilifying
,
vituperative
priggish
collapse
exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
related words >
Quakerish
,
Victorian
,
abusive
,
blackening
,
blameful
,
censorious
,
choicy
,
choosy
,
condemnatory
,
condescending
,
conformist
,
conscientious
,
contemptuous
,
critical
,
damnatory
,
demure
,
denunciatory
,
deprecative
,
deprecatory
,
depreciative
,
derisive
,
discriminating
,
discriminative
,
disparaging
,
exacting
,
execrating
,
execrative
,
execratory
,
fastidious
,
formal
,
formalistic
,
fussy
,
goody-goody
,
hidebound
,
high-hat
,
invective
,
inveighing
,
judgmental
,
meticulous
,
mid-Victorian
,
narrow
,
nit-picking
,
objurgatory
,
old-maidish
,
overmodest
,
particular
,
patronizing
,
pedantic
,
perfectionistic
,
picky
,
precious
,
precise
,
precisianistic
,
prig
,
prim
,
prissy
,
prudish
,
punctilious
,
purist
,
puristic
,
puritanic
,
puritanical
,
reproachful
,
reprobative
,
reviling
,
ridiculing
,
sanctimonious
,
scoffing
,
scrupulous
,
selective
,
self-complacent
,
self-contented
,
self-esteeming
,
self-loving
,
self-righteous
,
self-satisfied
,
sensitive
,
severe
,
smug
,
sniffy
,
snippy
,
snobbish
,
snobby
,
snooty
,
snotty
,
stick-in-the-mud
,
stiff-necked
,
strait-laced
,
straitlaced
,
strict
,
stuffy
,
uptight
,
vilifying
,
vituperative
straitlaced
collapse
related words >
Quakerish
,
Sabbatarian
,
Victorian
,
authoritarian
,
bigot
,
bigoted
,
borne
,
censorious
,
closed
,
constricted
,
cramped
,
creedbound
,
deaf
,
deaf to reason
,
demure
,
dogmatic
,
dour
,
evangelical
,
fanatical
,
firm
,
fundamentalist
,
genteel
,
hard
,
hidebound
,
hyperorthodox
,
illiberal
,
impliable
,
inexorable
,
inflexible
,
insular
,
iron
,
ironbound
,
ironclad
,
ironhanded
,
libertine
,
literalist
,
literalistic
,
little
,
little-minded
,
mean
,
mean-minded
,
mean-spirited
,
mid-Victorian
,
muscle-bound
,
narrow
,
narrow-hearted
,
narrow-minded
,
narrow-souled
,
narrow-spirited
,
nearsighted
,
obdurate
,
obstinate
,
old-maidish
,
orthodox
,
overmodest
,
parochial
,
petty
,
precisianist
,
precisianistic
,
prig
,
priggish
,
prim
,
prissy
,
procrustean
,
provincial
,
prudish
,
purblind
,
purist
,
puristic
,
puritan
,
puritanic
,
puritanical
,
relentless
,
rigid
,
rigorist
,
rigoristic
,
rigorous
,
rockbound
,
sanctimonious
,
shortsighted
,
small
,
small-minded
,
smug
,
staunch
,
stiff
,
stiff-necked
,
straightlaced
,
strict
,
stubborn
,
stuffy
,
unbending
,
uncatholic
,
uncharitable
,
uncompromising
,
ungenerous
,
unliberal
,
unrelenting
,
unyielding
hidebound
collapse
stubbornly conservative and narrow-minded
related words >
Quakerish
,
Sabbatarian
,
Victorian
,
authoritarian
,
bigot
,
bigoted
,
borne
,
censorious
,
closed
,
conservative
,
constricted
,
conventional
,
cramped
,
creedbound
,
deaf
,
deaf to reason
,
demure
,
dogmatic
,
dour
,
evangelical
,
fanatical
,
firm
,
fundamentalist
,
hard
,
hyperorthodox
,
illiberal
,
impliable
,
inexorable
,
inflexible
,
insular
,
intolerant
,
intractable
,
iron
,
ironbound
,
ironclad
,
ironhanded
,
literalist
,
literalistic
,
little
,
little-minded
,
mean
,
mean-minded
,
mean-spirited
,
mid-Victorian
,
muscle-bound
,
narrow
,
narrow-hearted
,
narrow-minded
,
narrow-souled
,
narrow-spirited
,
nearsighted
,
obdurate
,
obstinate
,
old-maidish
,
orthodox
,
overmodest
,
parochial
,
petty
,
precisianist
,
precisianistic
,
priggish
,
prim
,
procrustean
,
provincial
,
prudish
,
purblind
,
purist
,
puristic
,
puritan
,
puritanic
,
puritanical
,
reactionary
,
relentless
,
restricted
,
rigid
,
rigorist
,
rigoristic
,
rigorous
,
rockbound
,
sanctimonious
,
shortsighted
,
small
,
small-minded
,
smug
,
staunch
,
stiff
,
stiff-necked
,
straightlaced
,
strait-laced
,
straitlaced
,
strict
,
stubborn
,
stuffy
,
unbending
,
uncatholic
,
uncharitable
,
uncompromising
,
ungenerous
,
unliberal
,
unrelenting
,
unyielding
smug
collapse
marked by excessive complacency or self-satisfaction; "a smug glow of self-congratulation"
related words >
Quakerish
,
Victorian
,
bland
,
bovine
,
braw
,
buttery
,
censorious
,
chic
,
classy
,
clothes-conscious
,
complacent
,
conceited
,
consequential
,
cosmopolitan
,
dapper
,
dashing
,
deck out
,
demure
,
disarming
,
doll up
,
dress up
,
dressed to advantage
,
dressed to kill
,
elegant
,
exquisite
,
fair-spoken
,
fine-spoken
,
fulsome
,
genteel
,
glib
,
gussy up
,
hidebound
,
holier-than-thou
,
honey-mouthed
,
honey-tongued
,
ingratiating
,
jaunty
,
mid-Victorian
,
narcissan
,
narcissine
,
narcissistic
,
narcistic
,
narrow
,
natty
,
neat
,
nifty
,
nobby
,
oily
,
oily-tongued
,
old-maidish
,
overconfident
,
overmodest
,
overproud
,
overweening
,
posh
,
priggish
,
prim
,
primp
,
prudish
,
puritanical
,
recherche
,
ritzy
,
sanctimonious
,
self-admiring
,
self-approving
,
self-assuming
,
self-complacent
,
self-congratulating
,
self-congratulatory
,
self-content
,
self-contented
,
self-delighting
,
self-endeared
,
self-esteeming
,
self-gratulating
,
self-gratulatory
,
self-important
,
self-loving
,
self-respecting
,
self-satisfied
,
self-sufficient
,
sharp
,
sleek
,
slick
,
smart
,
smarten up
,
smooth
,
smooth-spoken
,
smooth-tongued
,
snazzy
,
soapy
,
soft-spoken
,
soigne
,
soignee
,
sophisticated
,
spiffy
,
spruce
,
spruce up
,
stiff-necked
,
straitlaced
,
stuffy
,
style-conscious
,
suave
,
suave-spoken
,
swank
,
swanky
,
swell
,
tricksy
,
trig
,
trim
,
unctuous
,
vain
,
vainglorious
,
well-dressed
,
well-groomed
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