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• Once prim, Edinburgh city centre is a haven for brothels, lap-dancing clubs and strip bars.2003 August 3, Stephen Khan, “Athens of the North? Nowadays it's more like Amsterdam”, in The Guardian. From the entry Athens of the North
• He still liked the prim eveningful place, except for the Hotel La Grande.1938, Woman's Home Companion - Volume 65, page 12. From the entry eveningful
• But Charlotte, a prim gallerina whose sole aspiration consists of locking down a Wasp husband, remained a bridge to the past.2024 April 5, Alaina Demopoulos, “Sex and the City is on Netflix. Perfect – gen Z are a bunch of Charlottes”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry gallerina
• Goodbye to Word’s prim rulers, its officious yardsticks, its self-serious formatting toolbar with cryptic abbreviations (ComicSansMS?) and trinkety icons.2008 January 6, Virginia Heffernan, “An Interface of One’s Own”, in New York Times. From the entry trinkety
• That day at Yeatman, however, she wore a prim short-sleeved, knee-length blue dress and a pair of tan patent leather flats I'd never seen before.2021, Ed Tarkington, The Fortunate Ones, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, page 20. From the entry short-sleeved
• The tea dress can be worn with heels or flats, buttoned up for a prim look or undone for a more sensual, casual vibe.2014, Kerstin Rodgers, Ms Marmite Lover's Secret Tea Party. From the entry tea dress
• It suggests a prim aunt playing “proverbs” with a sofaful of priggish little nieces, and is a studied insult to cards and chess.1921 September 24, Raymund Allen, “From My Study: Mental Recreation”, in Western Mail, number 16,326, page 9. From the entry sofaful
• The aesthetic of the house is prim and country, with white beadboard knee walls around the first floor and pale flowered wallpaper in the Shaker-style kitchen.2009 July 3, Lisa A. Phillips, “A Jazz Voice Finds a Mellower Range”, in New York Times. From the entry beadboard
• I once named it Lamb Dressed as Mutton, but now I think I prefer Wifely Chic - whatever, it's the dernier cri in unthreatening, cheerful, prim and demure.2006 December 31, Polly Vernon, “Jigsaw girl is no fashion icon”, in The Observer. From the entry dernier cri
• The first thing I did was to spread out the letters from Augusta on our sofa, photograph them and send him a ceremonial video, prim, with a thick British accent.2018 April 5, Vandini Sharma, “The Masters through the eyes of a 16-year-old from India”, in Princeton Daily Clarion, volume 171, number…. From the entry Hogwartsian
• Throughout all these trifling actions the natural grace, delicacy, and prim neat-handedness of the woman still waited mechanically on the most useless and aimless of her occupations of the moment.2008, Wilkie Collins, The Dead Secret, →ISBN, page 28. From the entry neat-handedness

Meaning of prim

1. adjective Of a person, their manner or appearance: Formal and precise; stiffly decorous.
2. adjective Prudish; straight-laced.
3. adjective Of things: Neat; trim.

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How do you use prim in a sentence?

Prim is used as an adjective, verb and noun. For example: “God damn it, what does she want of me, this sad, beautiful bridgeplayer of the Fifth Floor, with her air of lost love and her prim carnality?”

What is a short sentence with prim?

“He still liked the prim eveningful place, except for the Hotel La Grande.”

What does prim mean?

Prim means of a person, their manner or appearance: Formal and precise; stiffly decorous.