governessy

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for governessy
Adjective
  • And then there’s Carrie, who is a heightened version of her lesser traits from SATC: prudish, private and lacking in humility.
    Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 23 July 2025
  • But Townsend Warner’s takedown of prudish Victorian morality is only getting started.
    B. Pietras June 10, Literary Hub, 10 June 2025
Adjective
  • However, the stakes have ever been only so high in this prim, proper and altogether charming world, so why change that now?
    Mark Meszoros, Boston Herald, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The second part, Mother, features Charlotte Rampling as a chilly English author living in Dublin, where her daughters — prim Timothea (Blanchett) and pink-haired wild child Lilith (Vicky Krieps) — have moved to be closer to her and yet see her once a year for afternoon tea.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 31 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Getty portrayed the cantankerous but charming matriarch Sophia Petrillo, the mother of Arthur's character, and McClanahan played the flirtatious Southern belle Blanche.
    Ashley Hume , Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Mendoza began sending her flirtatious text messages.
    ProPublica, ProPublica, 13 Sep. 2025
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“Governessy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/governessy. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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