| Affectedly proper, prudish |
The Times Concise |
15 Sep 2025 |
| Proper media work exists, e.g. knocking out article |
The Telegraph Toughie |
04 Jun 2025 |
| Strait-laced priest is with outsiders in sacristy (6) |
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| Goody-goody (6) |
Puzzler |
28 Feb 2025 |
| Too prim and proper |
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| Fastidious gentleman held up by spy in disguise (6) |
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| Squeamish and overfastidious (6) |
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| Prudish |
Wall Street Journal |
26 Oct 2024 |
| Scarlett O'Hara's maid |
Newsday |
25 Oct 2024 |
| Fastidious (6) |
The Guardian Quick |
08 Oct 2024 |
| Overly proper |
Eugene Sheffer |
22 Apr 2024 |
| Is the South to nose about being so prim? (6) |
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| Strait-laced and fussy |
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| Fussy and prim (6) |
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| Strait-laced and fussy (6) |
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| Persnickety |
Commuter |
30 Dec 2023 |
| Goody-goody |
Puzzler Backwords |
22 Dec 2023 |
| Prim |
Universal |
23 Sep 2023 |
| Overly proper |
Eugene Sheffer |
09 Jun 2023 |
| Fussily respectable |
Wall Street Journal |
28 Sep 2022 |
| Overly proper |
Eugene Sheffer |
11 Jan 2022 |
| To snoop around is beginning to seem fussy |
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| Overly proper |
Universal |
30 Apr 2021 |
| Fussily respectable |
The Times Concise |
29 Jan 2021 |
| Overly proper |
Wall Street Journal |
27 Aug 2020 |
| Maybe a little too proper |
Family Time |
06 Oct 2019 |
| Old-maidish |
USA Today |
23 Sep 2019 |
| Beyond prim and proper |
New York Times |
30 Jun 2019 |
| Old-maidish |
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| Beyond prim and proper |
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| Prim and proper |
USA Today |
24 Dec 2018 |
| More than proper |
The Washington Post |
14 Oct 2018 |
| More than proper |
LA Times Daily |
14 Oct 2018 |
| Overly proper |
LA Times Daily |
25 Jul 2018 |
| Overly proper |
The Washington Post |
25 Jul 2018 |
| Excessively proper |
Eugene Sheffer |
19 Mar 2018 |
| More than proper |
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| Prim and proper |
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| Overly proper |
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| Popular ideas, say, abandoned by centrists in particular |
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| Overly proper |
Newsday |
10 Sep 2017 |
| Affectedly prim |
Universal |
23 Nov 2016 |
| Beyond proper |
USA Today |
28 Sep 2015 |
| Affectedly proper |
Wall Street Journal |
07 Aug 2015 |
| Spy's oddly retaining bits of Russian intelligence, being prudish |
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| Oh-so-prim |
Premier Sunday |
24 May 2015 |
| Overly proper |
Thomas Joseph |
02 May 2015 |
| Puritanical |
USA Today |
10 Apr 2015 |
| Public relations is sadly empty and formal |
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| Affectedly proper |
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| Puritanical |
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| Beyond proper |
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| Oh-so-prim |
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| Excessively prim and proper |
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| Scarlett O'Hara's maid |
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| Proper to a fault |
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| Like a stereotypical schoolmarm |
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| Scarlett's maid |
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| Overly proper |
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| Scarlett's maid |
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| Beyond proper |
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| Proper to a fault |
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| Proper to a fault |
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| Too punctilious |
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| Proper and then some |
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| Proper and then some |
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| Puritanical |
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| Victorian |
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| Like a schoolmarm |
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| Over-refined |
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| Victorian |
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| Overly prim and proper |
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| Straight-laced and then some |
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| Straitlaced and then some |
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| Priggish |
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| Very proper |
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| Excessively proper |
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| Like a nice nelly |
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| Like a nice Nelly |
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| Straitlaced and then some |
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| Finicky |
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| Scarlett's maid |
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| Overpunctilious |
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| Finicky |
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| Affectedly prim |
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| Victorian |
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| Excessively prim and proper |
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| Overrefined |
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| Too, too proper |
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| Very prim or precise |
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| Affectedly nice |
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| Very prim and precise |
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| Affectedly proper |
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| Like a fussbudget |
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| Strait-laced |
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| Sissified |
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| Overly precise |
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| Nice-nellyish |
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| Prudish |
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| Overproper. |
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| Like an old maid. |
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| Fussy. |
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| Too, too punctilious |
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| Finicky. |
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| Nice-nice. |
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| Nice-nelly |
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