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Exact Match:

priggish: exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"

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snooty collapse

prissy collapse

picky collapse

snippy collapse

snotty collapse: dirty with nasal discharge; "a snotty nose"; "a house full of snot-nosed kids"

self-righteous collapse

self-complacent collapse

reproachful collapse

condemnatory collapse: containing or imposing condemnation or censure; "a condemnatory decree"

judgmental collapse: depending on judgment; "a judgmental error"; "I think that she is too judgmental to be a good therapist"

choosy collapse: difficult to please

condescending collapse

Victorian collapse: 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"

prig collapse

sniffy collapse

vilifying collapse

damnatory collapse: threatening with damnation

prim collapse: dress primly; contract one's lips; "She primmed her lips after every bite of food"; assume a prim appearance; "They mince and prim"

prudish collapse

deprecatory collapse

disparaging collapse

sanctimonious collapse

staid collapse

selective collapse: tending to select; characterized by careful choice; "an exceptionally quick and selective reader"- John Mason Brown; characterized by very careful or fastidious selection; "the school was very selective in its admissions"

vituperative collapse

demure collapse

snobbish collapse

punctilious collapse

mid Victorian collapse

stiff necked collapse

scoffing collapse

patronizing collapse

discriminating collapse: showing or indicating careful judgment and discernment especially in matters of taste; "the discriminating eye of the connoisseur"

ridiculing collapse

puristic collapse

conscientious collapse: characterized by extreme care and great effort; "conscientious application to the work at hand"; "painstaking research"; "scrupulous attention to details"; guided by or in accordance with conscience or sense of right and wrong; "a conscientious decision to speak out about injustice"

puritanical collapse: of or relating to Puritans or Puritanism

censorious collapse: harshly critical or expressing censure; "was censorious of petty failings"

fastidious collapse: giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness; "a fastidious and incisive intellect"; "fastidious about personal cleanliness"; having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures; "fastidious microorganisms"; "certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements"

straitlaced collapse

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