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 straitlaced, nice-nelly, prim, prudish, puritanical, VictorianRelated Words priggish, staid, stuffy; genteel, proper, refined; decent, honest, moral, right, righteous, upright, virtuousNear 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