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prim and proper

adjective as in bluenosed

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Not only are viewers watching boldface names eat, they’re also watching them eat foods that are considered distasteful — which goes against the prim and proper image that celebrities are expected to uphold.

From Salon

A very prim and proper 1960s lady.

“She was prim and proper, and you knew she was going to go somewhere — and she asked us all what was important for females then, and she tried her best and did those things that mattered to people in my stature, not only in hers, you know, coming out of Stanford and the family she’s from,” Vandeveer said.

Feinstein, always prim and proper, at times seemed an odd icon of the leftist city.

"It's not this prim and proper stadium as it would be in Wembley or London. It is what we are as a community and what Luton is."

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

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