prim in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

prim in the PONS Dictionary

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prim Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to be prim (and proper)
être très convenable
to be very prim and proper
être assez/très vieille France (dans ses attitudes)
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She is very prim and proper, but extremely smart and intelligent, as she likes to read a lot of books in the library.
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Although she wears the mask of a prim and proper high-class lady, but is clumsy and spoiled in her private life.
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His style gradually changed to match the taste of his clients for simple, honest, even prim portraits.
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She does not always like new ideas and prefers prim, proper ladies.
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He is prim and proper, but seemingly more attentive to revenge against his enemies than the activities of his army.
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Will the world's most spectacular butler and maid, respectively, doff their prim-and-proper manners and get busy at last?
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These plantings had the effect of softening the parks' prim formal design.
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Prim's does not evaluate the total weight of the path from the starting node, only the individual path.
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Prim refers to this as "precognition" and appears to have known all along, but feigns ignorance.
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I thought that she was a bit prim.
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