- Affected in manner - Another flower trimmed from primrose ... tidy! - Excessively formal - Formal, prudish - Originally particularly right in manners - Prissy: ... and proper - Proper in actions
- Overmodest - Puritanical hid spur poorly - stuffy - Like a prude; very formal, precise, or reserved;
affectedly severe in virtue; as, a prudish woman; prudish manners.