nice-nelly

nice–nelly

adjective

Definition of NICE-NELLY

given to or marked by very conservative standards regarding personal behavior or morals <the novel's wildly off base portrayal of 18th-century aristocrats as nice-nelly exemplars of decorum>

Synonyms bluenosed, nice-nelly, prim, prudish, puritanical, Victorian

Related Words priggish, staid, stuffy; genteel, proper, refined; decent, honest, moral, right, righteous, upright, virtuous

Near Antonyms liberated, permissive; bad, immoral, improper, indecent, lax, lecherous, lickerish, loose, prurient, wicked; skanky [slang], slatternly, sleazy, sluttish, slutty, trampy; debauched, degenerate, degraded, depraved, perverted