VICTORIAN

• (noun) a person who lived during the reign of Victoria

• (adj.) of or relating to Queen Victoria of Great Britain or to the age in which she ruled

  "Victorian morals"

• (adj.) typical of the moral standards or conduct of the age of Queen Victoria

• (adj.) exaggeratedly proper

  "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"

  synonyms : priggish , prim , prissy , prudish , puritanical , square-toed , straight-laced , straightlaced , strait-laced , straitlaced , tight-laced

  Her excessively prim behavior makes her a bore. -added by naila_inlas

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