old-maidish

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

And this was the prim old-maidish governess they had been expecting! this fresh, blooming, lovely looking girl!

From Lewie Or, The Bended Twig by Bradford, Sarah H. (Sarah Hopkins)

Any one would with that old fogy, old man Harrison, worrying you to death with his old-maidish ways.

From The Rosie World by Fillmore, Parker