old-maidish

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He is indeed a Bostonian, with a Harvard accent, a vaguely old-maidish face and a wardrobe of sedate grey suits.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1925, after his name had been most prominently mentioned, the Swedish Academy, with the old-maidish perversity for which it is famed, withheld the prize for a year, finally awarded it to George Bernard Shaw.

From Time Magazine Archive

Both sides made hesitant, amateurish use of TV, handicapped by their own fears of it, and by the old-maidish restrictions of the government-owned BBC.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bella shuddered at the words, and Sonnenkamp exclaimed,— "O Bella! noble soul, alone great among women, cast away all these European casuistries; with a single step put this whole, old-maidish Europe behind you!"

From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Auerbach, Berthold

She had been a trifle old-maidish in her youth.

From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 by Various