Prissiest - Английское значение и перевод слова Prissiest на Русский язык

adjective

Done in accordance with convention or etiquette; suitable for or constituting an official or important occasion.

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A formal dinner party

noun

An evening dress.

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Cocktail parties every night so the ladies can show off their formals

noun

Someone who is too ready to behave in a way intended to please people in authority

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She’s a real goody-goody – i hate her!

adjective

Having or showing characteristics considered to be characteristic of a governess, especially primness or strictness.

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Her governessy tone

adjective

Typical of or like a governess (= a woman, especially in the past, living with a family and teaching their children at home)

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This sounded so governessy., she plays the strict, governessy character wonderfully well.

adjective

Rather feeble and prim or affected.

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It's dry, bloodless, and emotionally disengaged; but most annoyingly of all, it's self-consciously …

adjective

Weak, silly, or emotional

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She thinks we're a bunch of namby-pamby liberals.

adjective

Very formal and correct in behaviour, often in a way that is not sincere

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The chef had no patience with customers making niminy-piminy comments about his dishes., he adopts …

adjective

Too serious and disapproving

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Two po-faced men came to inspect the house., the film is serious but not po-faced., she remained po…

adjective

Self-righteously moralistic and superior.

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A priggish little pedant

adjective

Like a prig

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I found him priggish and cold.

adjective

Feeling or showing disapproval of anything regarded as improper; stiffly correct.

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A very prim and proper lady

verb

Purse (the mouth or lips) into a prim expression.

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Laurie primmed up his mouth

adjective

Denoting something that is truly what it is said or regarded to be; genuine.

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She's never had a proper job

adverb

Satisfactorily or correctly.

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My eyes were all blurry and i couldn't see proper

noun

The part of a church service that varies with the season or feast.

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We go to the high mass, with plainsong propers sung by the ritual choir

adjective

Having or revealing a tendency to be easily shocked by matters relating to sex or nudity; excessively concerned with sexual propriety.

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The prudish moral climate of the late 19th century

adjective

Easily shocked by rude things, especially anything relating to sex

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I don't consider myself prudish but i do think the sex scenes in the film were a bit excessive.

adjective

Behaving like a schoolmarm

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Stop being so schoolmarmish and bossy.

adjective

Having characteristics commonly associated with schoolmistresses, especially those of formality and briskness.

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Her crisp, rather schoolmistressy manner

abbreviation

Railway station.

adjective

Having old-fashioned and unchanging morals, especially relating to sexual matters

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The joke shocked her strait-laced parents.

adjective

(of a place) lacking fresh air or ventilation.

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A stuffy, overcrowded office

adjective

Formal, boring, and not modern

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A stuffy, arrogant man, the office gets so stuffy in the afternoon.

adjective

Relating to the reign of queen victoria.

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A victorian house

noun

A person who lived during the victorian period.

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The victorians had a passion for documenting, cataloguing and classifying the world around them

noun

A person from the australian state of victoria.

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The facility has taught thousands of victorians to use the internet