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81epicurean — adj 1. sybaritic, sensual, carnal, voluptuous; orgiastic, wild, unrestrained; self indulgent, intemperate, free living, Saturnalian. 2. dissolute, licentious, libertine, lascivious, debauched, dissipated, wasted; concupiscent, prurient,… …
82fastidious — adj 1. hard to please, critical, difficult; overcritical, hypercritical, overdemanding, overexact ing; fussy, finicky, overparticular, finical, meticulous; picky, Inf. choosy, dainty, Inf. fuddy duddy, Inf. pernickety. 2. overfastidious, overnice …
83finicky — adj 1. fussy, overparticular, finical, meticulous; picky, Inf. choosy, dainty, Inf. fuddy duddy, Inf. pernickety; fastidious, hard to please, difficult, critical; overcritical, hypercritical, overdemanding, overexacting. 2. overfastidious,… …
84goody-goody — adj 1. self righteous, righteous, sanctimonious, hypocritically devout, holier than the Pope, holier than thou; affected, overnice, overpre cise, overrefined, namby pamby; hypocritical, false, insincere, canting, Pecksniffian, mealy mouthed. n 2 …
85mealy-mouthed — adj 1. mincing, overnice, nice, overdelicate, delicate, overdainty, dainty, euphemistic, euphemistical, euphemious, affected; priggish, prim, proper, Sl. uptight; tartuffian, pious, moral, self righteous, sanctimonious, holier than thou,… …
86mincing — adj 1.(of gait, speech, behavior, etc.) dainty, overdainty, precious, sweet, effeminate, feminine, womanish, girlish, sissyish, sissy, pussyfooting, namby pamby, niminy piminy, Sl. cutesy; dandified, dandyish, foppish, coxcombic, coxcombical;… …
87nice — adj 1. agreeable, pleasant, winning, winsome, taking, delightful, attractive, likable; cheering, cheerful, amusing, humorous; amiable, friendly, cordial, genial, congenial; charming, gracious, generous, warm hearted, sympathetic, understanding,… …
88nice-nelly — adj 1. prudish, prim, prissy, Inf. stuffy, Inf. old maidish; narrow, censorious, puritanical, Victorian, Inf. goody goody, nice, Inf. too nice for words. See nice(def.6). 2. euphemistic, overnice, overdelicate, precious, pre cieuse, formalistic;… …
89overwrought — adj 1. all worked up, all wrought up, beside oneself, not oneself, in a state, in a dither, in a titter, atwitter, Inf. in a tizzy; overexcited, overly excited, all wound up, all keyed up, Sl. choked up; aroused, all stirred up, all whipped up,… …
90precious — adj 1. valuable, costly, high priced, of high price; expensive, rich, sumptuous, beyond price, priceless; premium, fine, superfine, exquisite, dainty; rare, select, elite, superior, superlative, supreme, prize; extraordinary, special, uncommon,… …
