Thesaurus / goody goody
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synonyms for goody goody
- demure
- correct
- spruce
- stickling
- tidy
- uncluttered
- blue-nose
- ceremonial
- ceremonious
- choosy
- cleanly
- conventional
- dapper
- decorous
- fastidious
- formal
- genteel
- good
- goody-goody
- nice
- nit-picking
- orderly
- overmodest
- polite
- precise
- priggish
- prissy
- proper
- prudish
- puritanical
- rigid
- shipshape
- spick-and-span
- stiff
- straight
- strait-laced
- stuffy
- upright
- Victorian
- well-groomed
- wooden
- prudish
- squeamish
- epicene
- fastidious
- finicky
- genteel
- goody-goody
- goody-two-shoes
- overnice
- pansified
- persnickety
- picky
- precious
- prim
- prim and proper
- puritanical
- sissified
- sissy
- stickling
- strait-laced
- stuffy
- tight-laced
- Victorian
- hypocritical
- insincere
- pious
- self-satisfied
- smug
- stuffy
- bigoted
- canting
- deceiving
- false
- goody-goody
- holier-than-thou
- Pecksniffian
- pharisaical
- pietistic
- preachy
- unctuous
- complacent
- egotistical
- hypocritical
- pious
- sanctimonious
- affected
- canting
- goody-goody
- holier-than-thou
- noble
- pharisaic
- pietistic
- preachy
- self-satisfied
- superior
- adoring
- ardent
- faithful
- fervent
- passionate
- pious
- religious
- sincere
- zealous
- adherent
- deep
- earnest
- fervid
- genuine
- godly
- goody-goody
- goody two-shoes
- heartfelt
- holy
- intense
- orthodox
- pietistic
- prayerful
- profound
- reverent
- revering
- serious
- venerating
- churchgoing
- devout
- pious
- righteous
- dedicated
- devoted
- ecclesiastical
- faithful
- godly
- goody-goody
- holy
- orthodox
- prayerful
- reverent
- sacred
- spiritual
- theological
- moral
- nice
- PC
- puritan
- strait-laced
- Victorian
- god-fearing
- goody-two-shoes
- holier-than-thou
- pious
- politically correct
- priggish
- prissy
- prudish
- self-righteous
- unctuous
- virtuous
- artificial
- goody-goody
- high-hat
- judgmental
- pietistic
- sanctimonious
- simon-pure
- smug
- snobbish
- unctuous
- bachelor girl
- fuddy-duddy
- goody-goody
- lone woman
- maiden
- prig
- prude
- single woman
- spinster
- unmarried woman
On this page you'll find 251 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to goody goody, such as: born-again, devout, righteous, saintly, sanctimonious, and clerical.
- apathetic
- cold
- cool
- dishonest
- disloyal
- dispassionate
- frigid
- indifferent
- irreligious
- unenthusiastic
- unexcited
- insincere
- unbelieving
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How to use goody goody in a sentence
Oh, you dear old Goody Goody, she cried, springing to her feet and throwing her arms around Tessa.
TESSA WADSWORTH'S DISCIPLINEJENNIE M. DRINKWATEROne said contemptuously, "Oh, you're a goody-goody, parson!"
THE TRANSFORMATION OF JOBFREDERICK VINING FISHERWas this the cousin whom she had considered a sort of namby-pamby, goody-goody girl who would be easily controlled?
FRIENDSHIP AND FOLLYMARIA LOUISE POOLMustn't be too goody-goody; that kind of thing is falling out of date.
NEW GRUB STREETGEORGE GISSINGA little fellow called Jamie took me aside, and in the most friendly way advised me not to be so "goody-goody."
TRAMPING WITH TRAMPSJOSIAH FLYNTWe used to think the Camp Fire meant being goody-goody and learning to sew and cook and all sorts of things like that.
A CAMPFIRE GIRL'S TEST OF FRIENDSHIPJANE L. STEWARTThe goody-goody philosophy of the namby-pamby takes an extreme and unreal view of life.
MARSE HENRY (VOL. 2)HENRY WATTERSONThey get the goody-goody ones easily enough; but those who do the thinking are not brought into the church in great numbers.
MEN, WOMEN, AND GODSHELEN H. GARDENERA goody-goody Sunday-school teacher had told him, when he was five, that the lightning would smite him if he told a lie.
THE BOY SCOUTS BOOK OF STORIESVARIOUSHe had looked upon Letty as so far above naughtiness as to be considered almost a goody-goody.
LETTY AND THE TWINSHELEN SHERMAN GRIFFITH