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41Intimate Relations — Infobox Film name = Intimate Relations | caption = director = Philip Goodhew producer = Angela Hart Lisa Hope John Slan Jon Slan writer = Philip Goodhew starring = Julie Walters Rupert Graves Matthew Walker Laura Sadler Holly Aird music =… …
42Four Times of the Day — is a series of four paintings by English artist William Hogarth. Completed in 1736, they were reproduced as a series of four engravings published in 1738. They are humorous depictions of life in the streets of London, the vagaries of fashion, and …
43prudery — noun a) The condition of being prudish; prudishness b) Prudish behaviour Syn: prudishness …
44genteel — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. polite, elegant. See courtesy, elegance. Ant., crude. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Polite] Syn. courteous, mannerly, well behaved; see polite 1 . 2. [Elegant] Syn. polished, cultured, well bred; see… …
45prissy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj., informal, priggish, prim; sissified, effeminate. See female. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. *goody goody, straitlaced, prudish, prim, *goody two shoes, overnice, fussy, fastidious, particular,… …
46squeamish — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. queasy, qualmish, nauseated; fearful, skittish, nervous; fastidious, picky; hypercritical. See unwillingness, taste.Ant., fearless, all consuming. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. finicky, fussy, mincing …
47straitlaced — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. severe, stern, dour, stiff; proper, formal, self righteous; prim, prudish, fastidious; strict, puritanical. Informal, bluenosed. See severity. Ant., relaxed, liberal. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a …
48strait-laced — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. strict, severe, stiff; see prudish . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Marked by excessive concern for propriety and good form: bluenosed, genteel, old maidish, precise, priggish, prim, prissy, proper, prudish,… …
49βαυκόν — βαυκός prudish masc acc sg βαυκός prudish neut nom/voc/acc sg …
50prudent — prudent, prudential, prudish While prudent is a judgemental word meaning ‘circumspect, judicious’, prudential is merely descriptive in identifying actions and attitudes that have to do with prudence, e.g. prudential motives are motives determined …
