Bluenosed
Bluenosed adjective - Given to or marked by very conservative standards regarding personal behavior or morals.
Usage example: intimations of homosexuality in the author's diary and correspondence were later excised by bluenosed editors
Nice-nelly and bluenosed are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Nice-nelly" instead an adjective "Bluenosed".
Nice-nelly
Nice-nelly adjective - Given to or marked by very conservative standards regarding personal behavior or morals.
Usage example: the novel's wildly off base portrayal of 18th-century aristocrats as nice-nelly exemplars of decorum
Bluenosed and nice-nelly are semantically related. You can use "Bluenosed" instead an adjective phrase "Nice-nelly".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- refined and bluenosed
- refined and nice-nelly
- right and bluenosed
- right and nice-nelly
- proper and bluenosed
- proper and nice-nelly
- upright and bluenosed
- upright and nice-nelly
- honest and bluenosed
- honest and nice-nelly
- priggish and bluenosed
- priggish and nice-nelly
- stuffy and bluenosed
- stuffy and nice-nelly
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