overmodest
21smug — Synonyms and related words: Quakerish, Victorian, bland, bovine, braw, buttery, censorious, chic, classy, clothes conscious, complacent, conceited, consequential, cosmopolitan, dapper, dashing, deck out, demure, disarming, doll up, dress up,… …
22stiff necked — Synonyms and related words: Quakerish, Victorian, balking, balky, bigoted, bulldogged, bulletheaded, bullheaded, case hardened, censorious, demure, dogged, dogmatic, erect, fanatic, hardheaded, headstrong, hidebound, house proud, independent,… …
23straitlaced — Synonyms and related words: Quakerish, Sabbatarian, Victorian, authoritarian, bigot, bigoted, borne, censorious, closed, constricted, cramped, creedbound, deaf, deaf to reason, demure, dogmatic, dour, evangelical, fanatical, firm, fundamentalist …
24stuffy — Synonyms and related words: Quakerish, Victorian, accordant, airless, anal, arid, arrogant, authoritarian, bad, bad smelling, barren, bigot, bigoted, blah, blank, bloated, bloodless, bombastic, borne, bourgeois, breathless, breezeless,… …
25affectation — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Artificiality of manner Nouns 1. (affected quality) affectation, affectedness, artificiality, insincerity, histrionics, ostentation; charlatanism, quackery (See deception); pretense, gloss, veneer,… …
26modesty — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Timidity Nouns modesty; humility; diffidence, timidity, bashfulness; shyness, unobtrusiveness; shame; reserve, constraint; demureness. Verbs 1. be modest, retire, give way to, retire into one s shell,… …
27Modesty — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Modesty >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 modesty modesty Sgm: N 1 humility humility &c. 879 Sgm: N 1 diffidence diffidence timidity Sgm: N 1 retiring disposition retiring disposition Sgm: N 1 unobtrusiveness …
28demure — a. 1. Affectedly modest, prudish, overmodest, putting on shyness or coyness. 2. Sober, sedate, grave, modest, coy, downcast …
29demure — adj 1. shy, meek, modest, reserved, retiring, diffident, bashful, coy; reticent, taciturn, quiet; timid, timorous, fearful, shrinking, like a shrinking violet, blushing. 2. undemonstrative, impassive, indifferent; unpre sumptuous, introverted,… …
30old-womanish — adj finical, finicky, hard or difficult or impossible to please, fussy, Inf. fuss budgety, Inf. persnickety; overparticular, overfastidious, overmetic ulous; prim, priggish, prudish, overmodest; strait laced, hidebound, fuddy duddy, stiff necked; …
