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nice-nellyadjective given to or marked by very conservative standards regarding personal behavior or moralsthe novel's wildly off base portrayal of 18th-century aristocrats as nice-nelly exemplars of decorum bluenosed, prim, prudish, puritanical, straitlaced(or straightlaced), Victorian priggish, staid, stuffygenteel, proper, refineddecent, honest, moral, right, righteous, upright, virtuous liberated, permissivebad, immoral, improper, indecent, lax, lecherous, lickerish, loose, prurient, wickedskanky(slang), slatternly, sleazy, sluttish, slutty, trampydebauched, degenerate, degraded, depraved, perverted nice nellynouna person who is greatly concerned with seemly behavior and morality especially regarding sexual matterssome nice nelly bowdlerized this collection of wartime ditties that were lustily sung by the men around the campfire bluenose, moralist, Mrs. Grundy, prude, puritan, wowser(chiefly Australian) moralizergoody-goody, Goody Two-shoesfuddy-duddy, old maid, prig, spoilsport, stuffed shirt immoralist libertarian, libertinemisbehaver in 1922 |