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as in tidy
being clean and in good order
behind the bed-and-breakfast is a prim little garden where guests are served afternoon tea
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as in Victorian
given to or marked by very conservative standards regarding personal behavior or morals
a very prim and proper matron was in charge of the girls' dorm
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Recent Examples of prim
The trend received backlash from the tennis establishment, which worried the patches interfered with the sport’s prim and proper aesthetic.
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Merlisa Lawrence Corbett, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
Go prim and proper with a column silhouette from Emilia Wickstead, or lean into the fairytale feel with a floaty chiffon number from McQueen.
—Elly Leavitt, Vogue, 30 June 2025
Most interesting is Cane’s prim and proper wife, Peyton (Danielle Campbell).
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 19 June 2025
Goygol includes 65,000 residents, prim parks, tall pines and occasional Tyrolean architecture.
—Tom Mullen, Forbes.com, 11 May 2025
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Merlisa Lawrence Corbett, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
Go prim and proper with a column silhouette from Emilia Wickstead, or lean into the fairytale feel with a floaty chiffon number from McQueen.
—Elly Leavitt, Vogue, 30 June 2025
Most interesting is Cane’s prim and proper wife, Peyton (Danielle Campbell).
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 19 June 2025
Goygol includes 65,000 residents, prim parks, tall pines and occasional Tyrolean architecture.
—Tom Mullen, Forbes.com, 11 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prim
Adjective
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The unconventional choice hints at the director’s disinterest in a tidy search-and-rescue, and the relief that comes with it.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
15 Aug. 2025
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But, Louis Menand writes, Baldwin’s life and message were always less tidy than either version suggests.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
14 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Other styles from the Victorian Era that are still en vogue are half-hoops, which feature three to five stones spanning across a thin finger, and Toi et Mois, which feature two gemstones side by side.—
Renan Botelho,
Footwear News,
11 Aug. 2025
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George Eliot, Middlemarch A Victorian novel that feels startlingly modern.—
Mark Nevins,
Forbes.com,
11 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Dončić appears on a new cover of Men’s Health magazine, looking trim.—
Alex Kirshner,
New York Times,
30 July 2025
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Several precious feet of space in the restaurant’s trim open kitchen are dedicated to a volcanically hot charcoal grill, to properly impart the smoke and char that give the sweetness of so many dishes a dimensional, toffee-like edge.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
20 July 2025
Adjective
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Indeed, one of the reasons some men left the League was their perception that the institution treated women too preciously and that the school administration labored to cultivate a puritanical atmosphere in a place that was by nature loose and raucous.—
Anne Halsey,
JSTOR Daily,
6 Aug. 2025
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For Max in particular, his parent’s lifelong humorless severity looks more and more like malevolent delusion under a cloak of puritanical righteousness.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
11 July 2025
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The build-up to the chance included neat touches from Bowen and Niclas Fullkrug, and West Ham’s control was greater than the 63 per cent possession statistic suggested.—
Michael Walker,
New York Times,
17 Aug. 2025
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When temperatures drop and the first freeze happens, cut back dead stems and foliage above the mulch layer for a neat appearance in the winter garden.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
14 Aug. 2025
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Officials have advised residents in the flood inundation zone to evacuate, but said there was no need to rush, emphasizing an orderly departure.—
Anna Commander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Aug. 2025
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This person was around in the ‘80s, when the now defunct Southwest Conference made the Wild West look refined and orderly.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
31 July 2025
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“Prim.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prim. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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