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bluenosed
Synonyms and Antonyms of bluenosed
given to or marked by very conservative standards regarding personal behavior or morals intimations of homosexuality in the author's diary and correspondence were later excised by bluenosed editors Synonyms of bluenosed straitlaced, nice-nelly, prim, prudish, puritanical, VictorianWords Related to bluenosed priggish, staid, stuffy; genteel, proper, refined; decent, honest, moral, right, righteous, upright, virtuousNear Antonyms of bluenosed liberated, permissive; bad, immoral, improper, indecent, lax, lecherous, lickerish, loose, prurient, wicked; skanky [slang], slatternly, sleazy, sluttish, slutty, trampy; debauched, degenerate, degraded, depraved, perverted
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