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old-maidish

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People had laughed at him for being so old-maidish, as they put it.

But Frieda was looking the other way, and Margaret travelled on to town feeling solitary and old-maidish.

Spiteful people said, that Lily was beginning to look old-maidish, but I never saw it in her calm face.

A freedom, both from girlish frivolities, and old-maidish crabbedness and prudery.

Alma, so said Exeter people, was becoming unsociable and old maidish.

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On this page you'll find 45 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to old-maidish, such as: particular, careful, fastidious, finical, finicking, and finicky.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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