prim

Example Sentences

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Everything is prim, but the picture’s mood is as weirdly glum as it is exuberant.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

Before each performance, the scene is set by a narrator who speaks in a prim, puritanical accent reminiscent of a bygone era.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2024

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

It is also, at the risk of sounding prim, worth noting how unusual it is for the Treasury to be teasing quite so much around tax cuts just before a big statement like this.

From BBC • Nov. 18, 2023

That is to say, a statusconscious, prim and proper audience of sternly respectable burghers.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith