That president's secretary is always prim.
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Prim
/pɹɪm/
Synonyms for "prim" (91 found)
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Closest matches (19)
Strong matches (27)
in buckrammid victorianmid-victorianmodestnarrowneatniceold-maidishorderlyovermodestpreciseprigpriggishprissy
Adjective(11 words)
Verb(2 words)
prim outprim up
Related words (45)
Related word relations
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More general
25 entriesShowing 16 of 25 words.
More specific
6 entriesCollocations
5 entriesprim and properprim appearanceprim demeanorprim dressprim manner
Inflections
2 entriesmore primmost prim
Derivations
2 entriessimilar
2 entriesSample sentences
9 total sentences available.
She was a rather prim and proper young lady.
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Marilla had almost begun to despair of ever fashioning this waif of the world into her model little girl of demure manners and prim deportment.
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It was a very long street of two-story brick houses, neat and prim, with whitened stone steps and little groups of aproned women gossiping at the doors.
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Showing 4 of 9 available sentences.