| ADJECTIVE | all | prudish, priggish, prim, prissy, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian | exaggeratedly proper |
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| Sounds | pruw'dihsh | |
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| Rhymes | abolish ... Yiddish: 161 rhymes with ihsh... | |
| Meaning | exaggeratedly proper. | |
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| Synonyms | priggish, prim, prissy, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian | |
| Broader | proper | marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness |
| Spanish | gazmoño, mojigato, pudibundo, puritano, remilgado | |
| Nouns | prudishness | excessive or affected modesty |
| Adverbs | prudishly | in a prudish manner |
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