prim
/pɹɪm/ adjective C2- Of a person, their manner or appearance: Formal and precise; stiffly decorous.
- Prudish; straight-laced.
- Of things: Neat; trim. · prim regularity
Comparative primmer · Superlative primmest
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As to the other denizens of the old building, it will suffice out of a large household to mention the prim, respectable, and capable Ames, and Mrs.
And prim as if
Very green and neat and precise was that yard, set about on one side with great patriarchal willows and on the other with prim Lombardies.
She deliberately picked up Anne’s clothes, placed them neatly on a prim yellow chair, and then, taking up the candle, went over to the bed.
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