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Primness

noun
1.
Excessive or affected modesty.  Synonyms: Grundyism, prudery, prudishness.
2.
Exaggerated and arrogant properness.  Synonym: priggishness.





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"Primness" Quotes from Famous Books



... it's most annoying about that confounded Shaw chap," he remarked to his wife as he mounted the broad steps leading to the gallery half an hour later, walking with the primness which suggests pain. Lady Bazelhurst looked up from her book, her fine aristocratic young face clouding ...
— Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 • Collected and Arranged by Francis J. Reynolds
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... down, watching their own footsteps; and their stooping figures were vague and shadowy as ships that pass in the night, not to be recognized if seen again by daylight. Now and then a little old woman stumbled up the path, driving a donkey which tripped daintily along in silent primness, under a load of fresh-cut olive branches. The sound of the tiny feet on the stones and the swish of olive leaves against the wall added to the poetry of the night for Vanno, though he reflected that it was all commonplace enough to the donkeys and the women, who were as important as ...
— The Guests Of Hercules • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
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Words linked to "Primness" :   prim, propriety, properness, prudery, modestness, Grundyism, modesty, priggishness, prudishness, correctitude


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