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adj. - Fussy; primly fastidious.

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Usage examples (21)
  • I'll accept that, if you insist on being old-womanish.
  • Do you know, my precious Rodya, I think that perhaps for some reasons (nothing to do with Pyotr Petrovitch though, simply for my own personal, perhaps old-womanish, fancies)
  • We must stop when we cannot go any further, and all this old-womanish cackle on the subject, the everlasting trying to prove what is already said to be proved -- the...
  • He makes no old-womanish outcry of alarm and expresses no exaggerated wrath.
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