(a.) pretentious; conceited; pragmatical\.

Quakerish Victorian abusive blackening blameful censorious choicy choosy condemnatory condescending conformist conscientious contemptuous critical damnatory demure denunciatory deprecative deprecatory depreciative derisive discriminating discriminative disparaging exacting execrating execrative execratory fastidious formal formalistic fussy goody-goody hidebound high-hat invective inveighing judgmental meticulous mid-Victorian narrow nit-picking objurgatory old-maidish overmodest particular patronizing pedantic perfectionistic picky precious precise precisianistic prig prim prissy prudish punctilious purist puristic puritanic puritanical reproachful reprobative reviling ridiculing sanctimonious scoffing scrupulous selective self-complacent self-contented self-esteeming self-loving self-righteous self-satisfied sensitive severe smug sniffy snippy snobbish snobby snooty snotty stick-in-the-mud stiff-necked strait-laced straitlaced strict stuffy uptight vilifying vituperative