prim
Example Sentences
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He is prim, charming and ultrafastidious; he is vain but considerate, sharp but deferential, faultless about manners and etiquette but, when it is time to issue a verdict, thoroughly ruthless.
From New York Times
When Summers discovered the place, it was a prim, all-white dress shop that she transformed into a club for L.A.’s comedy misfits.
From Los Angeles Times
A lot of her early clothing in the ’50s was very constricted — prim and proper.
From Los Angeles Times
DNA was a messy addition to genealogy, a sleepy, prim discipline of aristocratic origins in which the paper trail was sacrosanct.
From New York Times
We first had drinks in a very prim and proper members’ bar.
From Los Angeles Times
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