as in staid
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Just a few blocks away is Calhoun’s more staid lower-school building.—
Sage Lattman,
airmail.news,
14 Sep. 2024 -
Pentecostalism was about two decades old at the time, and its early practices of interracial worship, speaking in tongues, and divine healing were subjects of lively conversation among the relatively staid and respectable churchmen of mainline Protestantism.—
Andrew Cockburn,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Aug. 2024
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The Comstock Act is a relic, not just of a more prudish era in American history, but of an age when the sort of individual rights that modern Americans take for granted effectively did not exist.—
Ian Millhiser,
Vox,
27 May 2024
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Emily, perhaps true to her prudish Adderall-y millennial type, is not especially flirty.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
16 Aug. 2024
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One key to that, Gaultier said, is density of people without letting the space feel too stuffy.—
Hadley Hitson,
The Tennessean,
10 Dec. 2024
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Bingo! Alivia's tantrum hack—to keep things lighthearted—is a simple one, but a great reminder that not everything has to be so stuffy.—
Tanay Howard,
Parents,
8 Oct. 2024
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By then, America had become a lot less puritanical.—
Michael Schulman,
The New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2024
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Babygirl tries to deftly waltz over this minefield of a topic without a sense of puritanical judgement or heavy panting, but with as much emphasis on Romy’s need for this transfer of power to tap into her erogenous zones.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
23 Dec. 2024
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Ruby is a mess — chaos, really — whereas AJ is a bit more straitlaced, and there’s a stiff physicality to her.—
Manuel Betancourt,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Dec. 2024
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Garrison plays Trisha, Sam’s straitlaced sister who’s undergone major growth as well.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
9 Dec. 2024
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Our Most Popular Stories of 2021 This year, readers were into peanut butter and jelly, semi-conductors, bayonets, Victorian knitting manuals, plus the hard-working dogs of Medieval Europe.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
8 Jan. 2025
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It is joined by an assortment of Victorian homes (some are rentable) and the neighborhood’s crown jewel, the 1892 Bishop’s Palace, which is open for tours.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
6 Jan. 2025
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One sketch, vetoed by the network, had Tomlin playing a prim mother, Mrs. Beasley, calling her son in from the back yard, which was actually a war zone, ablaze with exploding mortar shells.—
Susan Morrison,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2025
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Last year may have given us Brat Summer, but things are moving in a decidedly prim direction for 2025.—
Elle Turner,
Glamour,
10 Jan. 2025
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“Priggish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/priggish. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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