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Adjective: prudish  proo-dish
  1. Exaggeratedly proper
    "my prudish Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
    - priggish, prim, prissy, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian

See also: proper, prudishness

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