That president's secretary is always prim.
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Prim
//pɹɪm//
Synonyms for "prim" (79 found)
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Closest matches (16)
Strong matches (24)
Related words (39)
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1 entriesderived
7 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
1 entriesmanner of
3 entriesrelated to
6 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
19 translations across 11 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- превзет adj (prudish)
Catalan
1 entries- posturer adj (prudish)
Czech
4 entries- prudérní adj (prudish)
- upjatý adj (prudish)
- upravený adj (precise, neat)
- úhledný adj (precise, neat)
Dutch
1 entries- preuts adj (prudish)
French
2 entries- collet monté adj (prudish)
- guindé adj (prudish)
German
2 entries- ordentlich adj (prudish)
- prüde adj (prudish)
Polish
1 entries- pedantyczny adj (prudish)
Russian
1 entries- чо́порный adj (prudish)
Spanish
3 entries- cartuchón adj (prudish)
- mojigato adj (prudish)
- santurrón adj (prudish)
Swedish
1 entries- prudentlig adj (prudish)
Ukrainian
1 entries- соромли́вий adj (prudish)
Sample 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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