Synonyms:
prim
Meaning: contract one's lips; "She primmed her lips after every bite of food"
Synonyms:
prim
Meaning: assume a prim appearance; "They mince and prim"
Usage examples
The younger lady's conversation would have shocked the prim maids and matrons of that day.
The house and out-buildings were all whitewashed to a condition of blinding perfection and not a weed was visible in the prim kitchen garden surrounded by its white paling.
The musty farm parlour, looking out on to a prim, cheerless garden imprisoned within high, blank walls, was not a room that lent itself readily either to comfort or decoration.
But, independently of my trouble, no man who has for forty years lived the life I have, can with impunity go coop himself in this prim English country, with its trim hedgerows and cultivated fields, its stiff formal manners, and its well-dressed crowds.