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| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | mincing, niminy-piminy, twee |
| Derivation | primness |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | priggish, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian |
| Derivation | primness |
Examples of prim
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He was furious when prim censors made him place his story in a previous century.
From the bloomberg.com
The prim, white box sat on a bookshelf of our den, far away from any other food.
From the sacbee.com
He's a breath of fresh air in an art form once dominated by the prim and proper.
From the denverpost.com
Others thought Li and her fellow finalists were insufficiently prim role models.
From the time.com
David Hockney portrayed him as a prim, vested, bearded presence on a purple sofa.
From the time.com
With its plush interior and its prim-and-proper road manners, what's not to like?
From the dailynews.com
A frumpy office worker begs a prim colleague to teach him the tango in two weeks.
From the denverpost.com
Poor Marion Crane, always so right, so respected, so prim and so proper, perfect.
From the freep.com
She reprises the look and jingles of Pepsi ads from the prim 1950s through today.
From the usatoday.com
- Assume a prim appearance; "They mince and prim"
- Dainty: affectedly dainty or refined
- Contract one's lips; "She primmed her lips after every bite of food"
- Priggish: exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
- Dress primly
- (primly) in a prissy manner; "the new teacher alienates the children by behaving prissily"
- The Prims is a 91u00A0km long river in western Germany, right tributary of the Saar River. It rises in the Hunsru00FCck mountains, near the village Malborn. It flows generally south through the towns Nonnweiler, Wadern and Schmelz. It flows into the Saar in Dillingen.
- To make affectedly precise or proper; prudish, overly correct in behaviour, straight-laced
- The building-blocks of all objects and avatars in SL. Short for "primitive," a prim is a geometrical shape than can covered with a texture (see below), linked to other prims, and scripted.
