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(adj) dainty, squeamish, overnice, nice
excessively fastidious and easily disgusted
too nice about his food to take to camp cooking; so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow
(adj) victorian, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, priggish, prim, prudish, puritanical
exaggeratedly proper
my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts