(a.) Modest to excess; bashful.

Quakerish Victorian abusive accusatory back-biting belittling bitchy blackening blameful calumniatory calumnious captious carping catty caviling chiding choicy choosy condemnatory conscientious contemptuous contumelious critic critical damnatory defamatory demure denunciatory deprecative deprecatory depreciative depreciatory derisive derisory derogative derogatory detractory discriminating discriminative disparaging exacting execrating execrative execratory fastidious faultfinding hidebound hypercritical invective inveighing judgmental libelous meticulous mid-Victorian minimizing narrow objurgatory old-maidish overcritical overmodest particular pejorative perfectionistic picky precise precisianistic priggish prim proscriptive prudish punctilious puristic puritanic puritanical reproachful reprobative reviling ridiculing sanctimonious scandalous scoffing scrupulous scurrile scurrilous selective sensitive slanderous slighting smug stiff-necked straitlaced strict stuffy vilifying vituperative