prim and proper
Example Sentences
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Ms Boulton said many other airlines were more "prim and proper", but EasyJet "made it more casual".
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2025
Early in her career, Swift had a reputation for being prim and proper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2025
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 ● Jan. 29, 2024
Novelist Charlotte Brontë cemented Henry’s prim and proper vision, complaining in 1850 that “the Passions are perfectly unknown” to the late Austen.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 6, 2020
When she talked, it was in the prim and proper voice of someone who understands flower shows and country homes.
From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez
