old-maidish

People had laughed at him for being so old-maidish, as they put it.

But Frieda was looking the other way, and Margaret travelled on to town feeling solitary and old-maidish.

Spiteful people said, that Lily was beginning to look old-maidish, but I never saw it in her calm face.

A freedom, both from girlish frivolities, and old-maidish crabbedness and prudery.

Alma, so said Exeter people, was becoming unsociable and old maidish.