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What is another word for governessy?

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Adjective
Affectedly proper, or formal, and rather prudish
prim
prudish
proper
puritanical
priggish
prissy
Victorian
starchy
stiff
stuffy
formal
schoolmarmish
conventional
Grundyish
schoolmistressy
moralistic
genteel
straitlaced
mimsy
decorous
ceremonious
bluenosed
correct
straightlaced
nice
dignified
rigid
demure
straight
polite
fussy
ceremonial
overmodest
snobbish
fastidious
particular
precise
choosy
dapper
meticulous
spruce
upright
strait-laced
niminy-piminy
old-maidish
goody-goody
nice-nelly
prim and proper
po-faced
old-maid
square-toed
blue-nose
nit-picking
square
overnice
uptight
puritan
Pecksniffian
shockable
precious
narrow-minded
fuddy-duddy
stick-in-the-mud
goody-two-shoes
conservative
staid
strict
squeamish
epicene
illiberal
narrow
severe
overscrupulous
tight-laced
old-fashioned
namby-pamby
of the old school
sanctimonious
smug
moral
unctuous
pious
virtuous
PC
self-righteous
self-satisfied
holier-than-thou
straight-laced
politically correct
goody two-shoes
conformist
austere
orthodox
sedate
reserved
fogeyish
bourgeois
pompous
sober
stilted
seemly
respectable
solemn
traditionalist
traditional
unadventurous
conforming
forbidding
button-down
Pooterish
decent
aloof
ladylike
stodgy
detached
remote
ascetic
abstinent
antisocial
starched
unfriendly
spartan
abstemious
sententious
stiff-necked
censorious
serious
unbending
restrained
comme il faut
buttoned-down
boring
hair-shirt
by the numbers
diehard
stand-offish
behind the times
unhip
uncool
punctilious
mainstream
socially acceptable
Pharisaic
prude
mannered
doctrinal
Biedermeier
dogmatic
small-town
suburban
parochial
bien pensant
pedantic
earnest
impersonal
cold
distant
cool
frosty
humourlessUK
fusty
unsociable
standoffish
old-fogeyish
self-important
arrogant
supercilious
humorlessUS
magisterial
important
puffy
offish
unclubbable
asocial
finicky
standoff
dry
unemotional
becoming
befitting
pernickety
dry as dust
gentlemanly
refined
unfeeling
overparticular
cold-eyed
buttoned-up
fit
right
niggly
out of date
out of the ark
out-of-date
dated
suitable
modest
mannerly
fitting
exact
overcautious
old-womanish
in line
by the book
honourableUK
meet
comely
de rigueur
done
courteous
well-mannered
honorableUS
straight arrow
withdrawn
unsocial
undemonstrative
unapproachable
haughty
uncommunicative
keeping people at arm's length
inflexible
official
reticent
taciturn
unsympathetic
affected
unforthcoming
unresponsive
moderate
Spartan
continent
exacting
economical
refraining
temperate
self-denying
self-abnegating
self-sacrificing
frugal
simple
self-restrained
non-indulgent
celibate
self-disciplined
“In exasperation, Anne marched over and grabbed him in her firmest governessy hold.”
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