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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



... prominently veined fingers, clasping the notes as a preliminary to hiding them away, seemed in their nervous primness to be saying to Rachael: "I have deep confidence in you, and I think that to-night I have shown it. But oblige me by not presuming. I am Mrs. Maldon and you are Rachel. After all, I have not yet known ...
— The Price of Love • Arnold Bennett


Words linked to "Primness" :   modesty, prim, properness, priggishness, Grundyism, modestness, correctitude, propriety


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