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How to pronounce buttoned-down in English?

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Synonyms button-down, conservative


a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business.

Examples of buttoned-down

buttoned-down
The 26-year-old Albany resident wore a tie, white buttoned-down shirt and jeans.
From the timesunion.com
Butler's players are anything but buttoned-down, but they're almost never sloppy.
From the omaha.com
Foer is so buttoned-down and serious he makes Philip Roth look like Andre 3000.
From the time.com
This is not the professional, buttoned-down picture Reid would like us to have.
From the sacbee.com
Nicholson, the risk-taking bon vivant, will help buttoned-down Freeman loosen up.
From the thenewstribune.com
And, don't be fooled by Barsotti's buttoned-down shirt and neatly cropped hair.
From the sacbee.com
The final whistle went and he buttoned up his jacket, and headed down the tunnel.
From the telegraph.co.uk
From the start he was a master of comic timing, of the buttoned-down double take.
From the time.com
Pursuing Fuentes struck many as contradictory to the team's buttoned-down payroll.
From the stltoday.com