Prudish - English meaning

adjective

Done in accordance with convention or etiquette; suitable for or constituting an official or important occasion.

Usage examples:

A formal dinner party

noun

An evening dress.

Usage examples:

Cocktail parties every night so the ladies can show off their formals

adjective

To be desired or approved of.

Usage examples:

It's good that he's back to his old self

noun

That which is morally right; righteousness.

Usage examples:

A mysterious balance of good and evil

adverb

Well.

Usage examples:

My mother could never cook this good

adjective

Having or showing characteristics considered to be characteristic of a governess, especially primness or strictness.

Usage examples:

Her governessy tone

adjective

Typical of or like a governess (= a woman, especially in the past, living with a family and teaching their children at home)

Usage examples:

This sounded so governessy., she plays the strict, governessy character wonderfully well.

adjective

Rather feeble and prim or affected.

Usage examples:

It's dry, bloodless, and emotionally disengaged; but most annoyingly of all, it's self-consciously …

adjective

Overfond of making moral judgements about others' behaviour; too ready to moralize.

Usage examples:

A moralistic stance on advertising

adjective

Involved with judging other people’s morals and telling them how to behave

Usage examples:

American foreign policy had been rigidly moralistic.

adjective

Very formal and correct in behaviour, often in a way that is not sincere

Usage examples:

The chef had no patience with customers making niminy-piminy comments about his dishes., he adopts …

noun

Dated a woman who is not young and has not married

adjective

Self-righteously moralistic and superior.

Usage examples:

A priggish little pedant

adjective

Like a prig

Usage examples:

I found him priggish and cold.

adjective

Feeling or showing disapproval of anything regarded as improper; stiffly correct.

Usage examples:

A very prim and proper lady

verb

Purse (the mouth or lips) into a prim expression.

Usage examples:

Laurie primmed up his mouth

adjective

Fussily and excessively respectable.

Usage examples:

A middle-class family with two prissy children

noun

A member of a group of english protestants of the late 16th and 17th centuries who regarded the reformation of the church under elizabeth i as incomplete and sought to simplify and regulate forms of worship.

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From its inception there had been a committed protestant minority who aspired to complete a full pr…

adjective

Relating to the puritans.

Usage examples:

A puritan parliamentarian

adjective

Having or displaying a very strict or censorious moral attitude towards self-indulgence or sex.

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His puritanical parents saw any kind of pleasure as the road to damnation

adjective

Behaving like a schoolmarm

Usage examples:

Stop being so schoolmarmish and bossy.

adjective

Having characteristics commonly associated with schoolmistresses, especially those of formality and briskness.

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Her crisp, rather schoolmistressy manner

adjective

Having old-fashioned and unchanging morals, especially relating to sexual matters

Usage examples:

The joke shocked her strait-laced parents.

adjective

(of a place) lacking fresh air or ventilation.

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A stuffy, overcrowded office

adjective

Formal, boring, and not modern

Usage examples:

A stuffy, arrogant man, the office gets so stuffy in the afternoon.

adjective

Relating to the reign of queen victoria.

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A victorian house

noun

A person who lived during the victorian period.

Usage examples:

The victorians had a passion for documenting, cataloguing and classifying the world around them

noun

A person from the australian state of victoria.

Usage examples:

The facility has taught thousands of victorians to use the internet