Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| belittler | one who belittles. |
| boobird | a person who boos. |
| buttinski | a person given to butting in, a troublesome meddler. |
| buttinsky | a person given to butting in, a troublesome meddler. |
| buzzkill | someone or something that stops people from enjoying themselves. |
| buzzkiller | someone or something that stops people from enjoying themselves. |
| comstocker | one who engages in comstockery, self-righteous, moralizing censorship. |
| criticaster | an inferior or petty critic. |
| didact | a person given to lecturing or moralizing. |
| doctrinaire | (Fr.) a person who tries to apply principle without allowance for circumstance. |
| doctrinairism | the state of being doctrinaire. |
| dryasdust | boring; pedantic; (noun) a boring person. |
| faddist | a faddish person. |
| fogey | a very conservative person. |
| fogeydom | the state of being a fogey. |
| fogeyish | like a fogey, very conservative. |
| fogeyism | the ideas or conditions of a fogey. |
| fogie | a very conservative person. |
| fogram | a person with old-fashioned or overly conservative attitudes. |
| fogramite | an antiquated person or thing. |
| fogy | a very conservative person. |
| fogydom | the state of being a fogy. |
| fogyish | like a fogy, very conservative. |
| fogyism | the ideas or conditions of a fogy. |
| formalist | a person having exaggerated regard to rules or established usages. |
| formulist | one who depends excessively on formulae. |
| fuddy | old-fashioned, dull (noun) an old-fashioned person |
| fussbudget | (US) one who is fussy about unimportant things. |
| fusspot | a fussy person. |
| gigmanity | narrow middle-class Philistinism. |
| godsquad | evangelical Christians as a group. |
| grammaticaster | (Arch.) a petty grammarian. |
| grinch | someone who ruins others' enjoyment. |
| hairsplitter | one that makes excessively fine distinctions in reasoning. |
| idealogue | a doctrinaire adherent of an ideology. |
| ideologue | a doctrinaire adherent of an ideology. |
| jobsworth | a minor official, esp one who adheres rigidly to petty rules. |
| killjoy | one who interferes with others' pleasure. |
| marplot | (Arch.) a stupid and officious meddler whose interference compromises the success of an undertaking. |
| marsport | (Arch.) a spoilsport. |
| martinet | (Fr.) a strict disciplinarian. |
| martinetish | like a martinet. |
| martinetism | the state of being a martinet. |
| momus | (Lat.) a satirist, a critic. |
| neatnik | a very neat and tidy person. |
| nitpicker | one who makes petty criticisms of minor details. |
| nosey | inquisitive (noun) an inquisitive person |
| nosily | (Adv.) NOSY, prying. |
| nosy | prying (noun) a nosy person |
| pedant | a person who parades or reveres excessively academic learning or technical knowledge. |
| pedantical | in the manner of a pedant. |
| pedanticism | pedantry. |
| pedantise | to play the pedant. |
| pedantism | pedantry. |
| pedantize | to play the pedant. |
| pedantry | ostentatious display of knowledge. |
| pernickety | fussy about small details. |
| persnickety | fussy about small details. |
| pharisee | a self-righteous or hypocritical person. |
| phariseeism | the state of being a pharisee, a self-righteous or hypocritical person. |
| pooper | as in party pooper, one whose behaviour spoils another's enjoyment. |
| preachily | (Adv.) PREACHY, given to preaching. |
| preachiness | the quality of being preachy. |
| preachy | given to preaching. |
| precisian precisianist | a person excessively devoted to minute observance of rules. |
| priggish | marked by priggism. |
| priggishly | (Adv.) PRIGGISH, like a prig. |
| priggism | the state of being priggish. |
| prissily | (Adv.) PRISSY, prim, fussy. |
| prissiness | the state of being prissy. |
| prissy | fussy, overparticular (noun) one who is prissy |
| prodnose | an inquisitive person; (verb) to pry, make uninvited inquiries. |
| prude | a person of priggish or affected modesty. |
| purist | an over-fastidious person. |
| puritan | a member of any religious sect aspiring to special purity of doctrine or practice. |
| puritanic | of or like a puritan. |
| puritanical | of or like a puritan. |
| puritanically | (Adv.) PURITANICAL, of or like a puritan. |
| puritanise | to make a Puritan of. |
| puritanize | to make a Puritan of. |
| quodlibetarian | a self-satisfied, disputatious person. |
| snooper | one who snoops. |
| sobersided | devoid of extreme qualities such as exaggeration; sober. |
| sobersides | a sober, dull person. |
| spoddy | like a spod, a boring, unattractive or over-studious person. |
| spoilsport | one who spoils the sport or pleasure of others. |
| tapist | a red-tapist, an excessively bureaucratic person. |
| tightass | (Coll.) an inhibited or excessively self-controlled person. |
| wowser | (Aust. sl.) an obtrusively puritanical person. |