EXAMPLES FROM THE WEB FOR OVERNICE
What was she trying to say with her dark hints and overnice scruples of a Puritan conscience?
MORE RELATED WORDS FOR OVERNICE
prissy
adjectiveparticular and fussyprudish
adjectiveshy and strict in behavior- Victorian
- affected
- artificial
- austere
- bigoted
- conventional
- demure
- fastidious
- finicky
- genteel
- illiberal
- mincing
- narrow
- narrow-minded
- offish
- overexact
- overmodest
- overnice
- precise
- pretentious
- priggish
- prim
- prissy
- proper
- puritanical
- rigid
- rigorous
- scrupulous
- severe
- simpering
- square
- squeamish
- starchy
- stern
- stiff
- stilted
- straitlaced
- stuffy
- uptight
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