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bluenosed

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of bluenosed

given to or marked by very conservative standards regarding personal behavior or morals

some of the more bluenosed parents demanded that the novel be removed from the high school's summer reading list

Synonyms of bluenosed

nice-nelly, prim, prudish, puritanical, straitlaced (or straightlaced), Victorian

Words Related to bluenosed

priggish, staid, stuffy

genteel, proper, refined

decent, honest, moral, right, righteous, upright, virtuous

Near 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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