Synonyms for old-maidish
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : ohld-mey-dish |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈoʊldˈmeɪ dɪʃ |
Top 10 synonyms for old-maidish Other synonyms for the word old-maidish
- distingué
- elegant
- fashionable
- formal
- graceful
- hollow
- intolerant
- la-di-da
- mannerly
- noble
- ostentatious
- polished
- polite
- pompous
- precious
- precise
- pretentious
- priggish
- prim
- prim and proper
- prissy
- proper
- prudish
- puritanical
- refined
- respectable
- strait-laced
- straitlaced
- stuffy
- stylish
- urbane
- Victorian
- well-behaved
- well-bred
- well-mannered
Définition of old-maidish
- adj genteel
- Laughing at her old-maidish precautions, they let her have her way.
- Extract from : « The Huntress » by Hulbert Footner
- This old-maidish attorney was meek and wise, but by no means timid.
- Extract from : « Guy Deverell, v. 2 of 2 » by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
- People had laughed at him for being so old-maidish, as they put it.
- Extract from : « Ladies and Gentlemen » by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
- Indeed, she was as prim and old-maidish as any spinster lady possibly could be.
- Extract from : « The Corner House Girls » by Grace Brooks Hill
- It has been in no busy, old-maidish, envious spirit that I have watched these affairs.
- Extract from : « Friends I Have Made » by George Manville Fenn
- I'm not old-maidish, my dear, though I've escaped holy matrimony.
- Extract from : « The Black Cat » by John Todhunter
- Mr. Reed, you certainly are the most old-maidish man I ever saw in my life.
- Extract from : « Trifles for the Christmas Holidays » by H. S. Armstrong
- He's an old-maidish sort of fellow, and is easily frightened.
- Extract from : « The Colossus » by Opie Read
- A gentle, old-maidish person and a sweet young girl of seventeen sat right in front of us that night at the Mannheim opera.
- Extract from : « A Tramp Abroad, Complete » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
- Miss Holmes was very nice and sensible, but there were some old-maidish traits.
- Extract from : « A Little Girl in Old San Francisco » by Amanda Minnie Douglas
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