Verb
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dress primly
- prim up - prim out -
contract one's lips
"She primmed her lips after every bite of food"
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assume a prim appearance
"They mince and prim"
Adjective
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exaggeratedly proper
"my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
- square toed - strait laced - straight laced - tight laced - victorian -
affectedly dainty or refined
- niminy piminy