Stiffly proper

Usage examples of prim.

Prim women wearing mantalets drew near peasants in panchos as their hero rode near.

They found that Acrefield Way was a straggling lane with Tudor cottages huddling matily between Georgian elegance and prim Victorian villas.

Her hair is silver blonde, she is tall, lithe, prim in appearance except for a mouth of monkeyish sensuality, and a bizarrely rapid, wide smile.

Murphy said, eyeing the prim and oh-so-proper postmistress who held his mail hostage.

Beeling was still afraid to let the inexperienced Primmer be his pilot.

There was a great deal of activity around the helicopter and he could distinguish Primmer standing to one side and directing the refueling operations.

Palace was what the Professor in one of his primmer moods would have referred to as a house of ill repute: the biggest, busiest, most red-plush-and-gilt-trim-bedecked whorehouse in Flatlands Portcity.

Professor in one of his primmer moods would have referred to as a house of ill repute: the biggest, busiest, most red-plush-and-gilt-trim-bedecked whorehouse in Flatlands Portcity.

So she took special care to appear even primmer and more unattractive than usual.

And maybe people began to be primmer when they were forgetting his influence.

Boston was rather primmer with just 4,000 illicit watering holes, but that was four times the number of legal saloons in the whole of Massachusetts before Prohibition.

Charlotte Treat, all of nine weeks clean, is trying to look primmer and primmer.

Mama would tell you that I am becoming prim and prosy, in fact, like my Uncle Brumby!

He sat with a posture of prim stiffness as though repeated maternal advice in his younger years concerning the desirability of good posture had rigidified his spine forever.

Ruby, neglected, with a jam-smeared face--the flustered maid, tousled, grubby, her frock gaping--the horrible hall, with its imitation-marble paper and staring linoleum--the prim, trivial, unaired, unused drawing-room, with its pathetic attempts at elegance-- Deb inwardly curled up at the sight of these things as things now belonging to the family.