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  • adjective superlative form of prim: most prim.

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Examples

  • Not even the primmest of gowns fully disguised the silky, seductive way she moved.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • Not even the primmest of gowns fully disguised the silky, seductive way she moved.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • Not even the primmest of gowns fully disguised the silky, seductive way she moved.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • Now, Jerry and my mother were by no means originals in their living arrangements, which did tend to give a rather louche reputation to even the primmest Mormon that the Yanks sent over, and so, as always happens where there are problems and lots of money around, a man materialized with a solution.

    my mother, the CIA agent, the Filipino forger, and the meaning of Christmas presents « raincoaster 2007

  • Useful, satisfying yet inoffensive combination of two very rude words which can safely be spoken in primmest and properest company.

    gros mot 2007

  • Useful, satisfying yet inoffensive combination of two very rude words which can safely be spoken in primmest and properest company.

    pulse of hope 2007

  • "Infatuated child!" she said, in her primmest and most fashionable accent.

    Aunt Rachel David Christie Murray

  • "Thank you," she said, in her chillest and primmest fashion, as she withdrew from Ruth's embrace.

    Aunt Rachel David Christie Murray

  • Yes, dear aunt, and I know, too, that charity -- that crown of virtues -- can warm and expand the primmest conventionality, and lend bright wings of beauty to the most commonplace conception.

    Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • Extravagance and absurdity have still their law, and should pay as rigid obedience to it as the primmest things on earth.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various

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