priggish



Victorian, abusive, blackening, censorious, choosy, condemnatory, condescending, conformist, conscientious, contemptuous, critical, demure, deprecatory, depreciative, derisive,

   namby-pamby - Milquetoast, baby, banal, bathos, beery, betwixt and between, bland, bleeding heart, breakable, brittle, characterless, chicken, cloying, colourless, cowardly,

   resourceful - Machiavellian, acute, adaptable, adept, adjustable, adroit, all-around, ambidextrous, amphibious, apt, arch, artful, artistic, astute, authoritative,

   a zillion - billion, million, myriad, thousand, zillion ,

   feel sorry for - bleed, commiserate, feel for, pity, regret, sympathize with, weep for ,

   chemise - petticoat, shift, undergarments ,

   blessed with - having, having and holding, holding, in possession of, landed, landholding, landowning, master of, occupying, owning, possessed of, possessing, propertied, property-owning, seized of,

   overpowered - all up with, beat, beaten, bested, confounded, defeated, discomfited, done for, done in, down, fallen, fixed, floored, lambasted, lathered,

   a bit - barely, extremely, fairly, hardly, imperfectly, in a way, insignificantly, kind of, lightly, little, minimally, minutely, pretty, quite, rather,

   upside-down flag - Klaxon, Mayday, SOS, alert, all clear, beacon, buzzer, fire bell, foghorn, horn, hue and cry, lighthouse, police whistle, siren, tocsin,

   senior citizenship - debility, dotage, infirmity, longevity, oldness, second childhood, senility ,