buttoned-up
Example Sentences
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By keeping buttoned up about its plans and intentions, Team Trump appears to have spared itself the Pottery Barn rule.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 6, 2026
“I feel like the women in her work were always messy and more complex and they were quite flawed or as buttoned up as the rom-com heroines of Hollywood’s golden age,” Kaplan says.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2024
At first, the character is "uptight, serious, buttoned up", and Dennis has to curb his natural instincts to play up to the crowd.
From BBC • Jun. 7, 2024
By his second tour, the edgy magazine was more buttoned up and less fun—the economics of the business had already changed.
From Slate • Jun. 3, 2024
Rishi buttoned up again and pulled the door open, his heart in his mouth.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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