old-maidish
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In 1925, after his name had been most prominently mentioned, the Swedish Academy, with the old-maidish perversity for which it is famed, withheld the prize for a year, finally awarded it to George Bernard Shaw.
From Time Magazine Archive
Both sides made hesitant, amateurish use of TV, handicapped by their own fears of it, and by the old-maidish restrictions of the government-owned BBC.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is indeed a Bostonian, with a Harvard accent, a vaguely old-maidish face and a wardrobe of sedate grey suits.
From Time Magazine Archive
This is just another of your motherly, old-maidish ways; dressing dolls for poor children, making bonnets, and knitting socks for all the little dirty babies in the neighborhood.
From McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey
A freedom, both from girlish frivolities, and old-maidish crabbedness and prudery. '6th.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
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