deu: zimperlich

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Meaning
means	(adjective) exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts" straight-laced, straightlaced, straitlaced, tight-laced, prudish, square-toed, priggish, victorian, puritanical, prissy, prim, strait-laced
means	(adverb) in a prudish manner; "she acts prudishly, but I wonder whether she is really all that chaste" puritanically, prudishly
means	(adverb) in a squeamish manner; "`I would rather not touch,' he said squeamishly" squeamishly
means	(adverb) in a prissy manner; "the new teacher alienates the children by behaving prissily" prissily, primly