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Goldblum, himself looking prim with a porcelain saucer and teacup in hand, says he found this “wildly touching.”

The dresses she has worn at the Convention have both been from Talbot's, the discount yet stil prim-and-proper chain store.

When her 12-year-old sister, Prim, is selected to compete in the Hunger Games, Katniss volunteers to go instead.

In her mug shot, she looks so prim in her shawl-collared coat, with its horizontal weave, buttoned up high and proper.

Sometimes his leather jackets were sporty and rakish, at others they were sculpted into prim, hourglass shapes.

The music pealed with wonderful sweetness; you could see the prim white heads of the nuns in their gallery.

In so doing—it was like going suddenly into cold water—I found myself face to face with a prim, little old maid.

Her mother's cousin stood in the doorway—a prim little old spinster, who had been their guest for several days.

Shortly after getting clear of Point Prim, the vessel shipped a sea which broke open the gangways.

That would be to make it formal, prim—anything but graceful.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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