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Adjective
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Prior to Ta-da!, nobody would expect Sharp to make a show in what is perhaps the most staid genre in New York.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
22 July 2025 -
Since becoming Health and Human Services secretary, Kennedy has turned the staid world of immunizations on its ear.—
Patricia Callahan,
CNN Money,
18 July 2025
Adjective
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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
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But Townsend Warner’s takedown of prudish Victorian morality is only getting started.—
B. Pietras
June 10,
Literary Hub,
10 June 2025
Adjective
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Her palette was extremely clean and very refined, a lot of it was architectural, but didn't feel too stuffy.—
Rachel Elspeth Gross,
Forbes.com,
20 July 2025
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While many fragrance houses feel unapproachable—too old, too stuffy, too expensive—Tom Ford’s have a personableness to them.—
Kiana Murden,
Vogue,
30 May 2025
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Indeed, one of the reasons some men left the League was their perception that the institution treated women too preciously and that the school administration labored to cultivate a puritanical atmosphere in a place that was by nature loose and raucous.—
Anne Halsey,
JSTOR Daily,
6 Aug. 2025
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For Max in particular, his parent’s lifelong humorless severity looks more and more like malevolent delusion under a cloak of puritanical righteousness.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
11 July 2025
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The first one is a little more straitlaced and straightforward.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
11 July 2025
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Love focuses on two colleagues at an Oslo hospital — Marianne, a straight (and straitlaced) doctor, and Tor, a gay male nurse.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
13 June 2025
Adjective
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Other styles from the Victorian Era that are still en vogue are half-hoops, which feature three to five stones spanning across a thin finger, and Toi et Mois, which feature two gemstones side by side.—
Renan Botelho,
Footwear News,
11 Aug. 2025
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George Eliot, Middlemarch A Victorian novel that feels startlingly modern.—
Mark Nevins,
Forbes.com,
11 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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At Prada and Saint Laurent, models wore prim pumps, mirroring the fashion set’s current obsession with office-ready kitten heels and slingbacks.—
Jake Henry Smith,
Glamour,
7 Aug. 2025
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But by the end of junior high, after her braces came off, her teeth were as straight and prim as everyone else’s.—
Burkhard Bilger,
New Yorker,
28 July 2025
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“Priggish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/priggish. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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