Crossword clues for primness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Primness \Prim"ness\, n. The quality or state of being prim; affected formality or niceness; preciseness; stiffness.
Wiktionary
n. The quality or state of being prim, precise, or proper.
WordNet
n. excessive or affected modesty [syn: prudishness, prudery, Grundyism]
exaggerated and arrogant properness [syn: priggishness]
Usage examples of "primness".
Eugene for some time thereafter with absurd quietness and restraint of manner, and a kind of stiff primness about her backbone.
Lavington had cast off her usual primness, and seemed to-night, for the first time in her life, in an exuberant good humour, which she evinced by snubbing her usual favourite Honoria, and lavishing caresses on Argemone, whose vagaries she usually regarded with a sort of puzzled terror, like a hen who has hatched a duckling.
The features of his face still in place, a jaunty bounce to his walk, an alertness in his eyes, the primness of his mouth even more pronounced, but still the champ, the light heavyweight champion back in nineteen twenty-something.