Definition of "primness" [prim•ness]

• The quality or state of being prim, precise, or proper. (noun)

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• "He could trust her on that score, and so the dastardly coward affected to sneer at what he called her primness, charging 'Lina to be careful what she did, if she did not want a lecture, and asking if there were any ragged children in Kentucky, as she would not be happy unless she was running a Sunday school!"
• "Neat beds in the front of the house were covered with the richest flowers, and well trimmed lawns sloping away at either side of the spacious building, thrust the idea of primness on the intruder."
• "She had never even kissed a boy properly before that night, never mind done anything else, and, if it hadn't been that for the previous few months a small group of girls in her class at school had been making her life a misery by taunting her about her 'primness' and her"