(a.) Formal; precise; affectedly neat or nice; as, prim regularity; a prim person.
(v. t.) To deck with great nicety; to arrange with affected preciseness; to prink.
(v. i.) To dress or act smartly.
Example Sentences:
(1) For many men, Austen is the archetypal women's author – her canvas too domestic, her domain too girly, her men too starchy and conformist, her settings too chintzy and her plots too prim to excite the average male reader.
(2) In Henley, he encountered with interest the bookshop-owning lesbians who had taken opium with Cocteau, and a prim, elderly lady who had, in her youth, urinated regularly upon pioneering sexologist Havelock Ellis.
(3) The main factor, however, is presumably not primness or diffidence but the chart's timeframe.
(4) The looks were set off by dashing turbans, decorative headscarves, and prim chignons for the unveiled.
(5) So, with this profile of fragments it is possible to build a spanning tree (PRIM'S arborescent skeleton) and to place a priori on it, new structures with other properties to value their activity level in the designed field.
(6) Primidone (PRIM) is metabolized into phenobarbital (PB) and phenylethylmalonamide (PEMA).
(7) And in part, as Murray staggered about indiscriminately high-fiving at the end, there was a sense that this has also been something of a rather mannered love story, at its centre Murray and that prim, capricious, but in the end compliantly adorable Wimbledon crowd.
(8) Prim though its traditions may be, Wimbledon is right to defend them.
(9) The synthesis of a ditopic linear receptor 3 consisting of an azacrown ether moiety for binding prim.
(10) When Klitschko shook his head primly and said: "I'm very conservative.
(11) The MIC has been determined, using the following antibiotics: chloramphenicol, tetracycline HCL, ampicillin, doxycycline, rifampicin, cephazolin, carbenicillin, nifuratel, gentamicin, aminosidine, trimetho-prim-sulphamethoazole, nalidixic acid.
(12) She may find it more necessary, or even perhaps more shocking, for it makes our age seem prim and puritanical and half-witted by comparison, not to mention more parochial.
(13) Low concentrations of serum gamma-Globulins were found in Phb (P less than 0.001), Prim (P less than 0.001, Phen (P less than 0.001) treated patients.
(14) Bird, a 22-year-old graduate when filming began, played 16-year-old Will McKenzie, a prim public schoolboy hastily transferred to a suburban comprehensive after a collapse in his family's fortunes.
(15) At his behest, Third Man staff dress exclusively in yellow, black and a dash of white: men wear sharp suits and skinny ties, with three thin lines scratched, as if by an animal's claw, through the centre; the women's dresses are prim and Mondrian-inspired, with a frisson added by low-denier hosiery.
(16) I’m not a naturist, but our family is certainly not prim when it comes to nudity, and I have authored a guidebook about wild swimming .
(17) The report, by the BBC Trust, found that many viewers were fed up with the stranglehold of long-running dramas, such as Casualty and Waterloo Road , on the BBC1 evening schedules, but also felt that both BBC1 and BBC2 were too prim and middle-class in tone.
(18) The relationship between structural changes of the minor salivary glands with age was evaluated by morphometric analysis in twenty patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome (prim.
(19) Monoclonal immunoglobulins (M Igl) were detected in the serum of 10 of 20 patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome (prim.
(20) When the Arts Council cut funding to Compass, he extended his rogue’s gallery with a sulphurous Rochester in Fay Weldon’s adaptation of Jane Eyre , on tour and at the Playhouse, in a phantasmagorical production by Helena Kaut-Howson, with Alexandra Mathie as Jane (1993); and, back at the NT, as a magnificent, treacherous Leicester in Howard Davies ’ remarkable revival of Schiller’s Mary Stuart (1996) with Isabelle Huppert as a sensual Mary and Anna Massey a bitterly prim Elizabeth.