prim , also: primsie ScoE

She tried to keep her voice prim, then gave up.

She really is prim most of the time, you know.

She's about to make a rather prim turn on the ice.

This third voice was rather more prim than the first two.

I had this wife, you see, a prim little school teacher.

You know in a funny sort of way he was really rather prim.

A few weeks later, the yard is prim once again.

It should have given her a prim and proper look.

I can't see the prim old boy in the role myself.

Though it seemed very prim on white paper, the contents were rather different.

She was a nice old body in her way - very prim and proper.

She turned, her mouth a prim line, but did not meet his gaze.

She's going to be prim and proper during the flight.

Why could she not act a prim and proper innocent?

She nodded and turned to a prim little man in the first row.

He gave a prim smile, looked at the bill and put some coins on the table.

All the ladies he knew were so prim and proper.

He'd rather she returned to teaching at the prim and proper girls' school.

"Well, you cannot walk all the way," the woman, who was some years her senior, said with prim authority.

I've played the part of a prim young lady on the stage, and I'll try it off.

Her lips were, at the moment, set in a prim line, though they might be full enough when relaxed.

The look seemed to be sending a mixed message on prim.

It had just the right mix of prim and provocative.

Prim suggests that the cadets get their first day off.

It was on prim white paper in a formal envelope.