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
Puritanical and nice-nelly are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Puritanical" instead an adjective phrase "Nice-nelly".
Puritanical
Puritanical adjective - Given to or marked by very conservative standards regarding personal behavior or morals.
Usage example: some of the state laws concerning sexual behavior are vestiges of a more puritanical time and are rarely, if ever, enforced
Nice-nelly and puritanical are semantically related. You can use "Nice-nelly" instead an adjective "Puritanical".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- refined and nice-nelly
- refined and puritanical
- proper and nice-nelly
- proper and puritanical
- upright and nice-nelly
- upright and puritanical
- priggish and nice-nelly
- priggish and puritanical
- stuffy and nice-nelly
- stuffy and puritanical
- moral and nice-nelly
- moral and puritanical
- righteous and nice-nelly
- righteous and puritanical
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