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primness

noun

1 primness

Excessive or affected modesty.

synonyms: Grundyism, prudery, prudishness.

Dutch: preutsheid
Polish: pruderyjność, pruderia

2 primness

Exaggerated and arrogant properness.

synonym: priggishness.


Moby thesaurus: Quakerishness, buckram, censoriousness, ceremonial, ceremoniousness, ceremony, demureness, demurity, dignity, extrinsicality, false modesty, form, formality, formalization, gravity, hideboundness, impersonality, mauvaise honte, narrowness, overmodesty ... show more.

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