primness

• But then I married you for your primness, did I not? —  Mary Balogh - The Temporary Wife
• But don't mistake the cottage-style curtains for primness: There's a good bit of rule-breaking going on at Sugar Beet too. —  News
• And it is evident today as she sits in the corner of the sofa, a marriage of passion and primness - the polo neck, brooch, skirt that falls at a tasteful point above the knee, counterbalanced by the throaty laugh, and the famous Deneuve froideur somewhat measured by the smirk that occasionally plays across her lips. —  Film | guardian.co.uk
• The same healthy, spirited tone is visible, which boys and girls recognized and were grateful for in 'Little Women' and 'Little Men,' the same absence of primness, and the same love of adventure." —  In the Mist of the Mountains
• Her figure had the slim angularity and primness which are sometimes seen in elderly women who are not matrons, and she had donned a little white lace cap at thirty, but her face had still a delicate bloom, and the wistful wonder of expression which belongs to youth However, she never thought of Charlotte as anything but a child as compared with herself. —  Pembroke A Novel

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