Thesaurus results for PRIMP

primp

verb

as in to dress

to try to make yourself more attractive by making small changes to your clothes, hair, etc., especially while looking at yourself in a mirror The teenagers spent hours primping in front of the mirror on the day of the prom.

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Recent Examples of primp The stage is set, the judges are primped, and American Idol is ready to find the next music superstar. —

Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Jan. 2026 My introduction to Peters came late last year, when Instagram’s algorithm served me a video of him wearing a baseball cap, primping and pouting for the camera. —

Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 19 Jan. 2026 Murphy is obsessed with their maximalism: the richest of the rich, the most snatched of all waists, the plucked and primped and plumped and pressed. —

Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2025 Hundreds of them were on hand this week to primp and pamper more than 2,500 cows competing at what is widely considered to be the Westminster Dog Show of the cattle world. —

Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 3 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for primp

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Senate Democrats, with all the women dressed in white, stood in the well in defiance.

— Terry Collins, USA Today, 8 May 2026
When McDaniels either didn’t dress or played fewer than 30 minutes this season, the Timberwolves are 4-15 against teams that finished the regular season with winning records.

— Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 7 May 2026