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Significados de buttoned-down en inglés

Unimaginatively conventional.

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        Examples for "conservative"
        Examples for "conservative"
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        Aigner's southern conservative party CSU has long held power in the state.
        Reuters
        2
        Thus he must find a way to talk sense into conservative hard-liners.
        NY Magazine
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        However, the conservative website Baztab-e-Emrooz reported a different version of the events.
        The Guardian
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        Members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus did not vote for it.
        Reuters
        5
        Why do even conservative citizens of these countries want universal health care?
        Reuters
        1
        The camo print goes blue and the button-down gains instant cool points.
        Ebony
        2
        Then, before I knew what was happening, he'd stripped off his button-down.
        Murder most frothy
        3
        He had a heavy five o'clock shadow and his button-down was wrinkled.
        Don't cry
        4
        He was neatly dressed in Dockers and a perfectly pressed button-down shirt.
        Four to score
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        He wore a blue button-down shirt and a nice pair of slacks.
        Leviathan Wakes
        Uso de buttoned-down en inglés
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        But never had I come across an entrepreneur as buttoned-down-boring as this one.
        Wired
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        In the early '90s, he practiced corporate law for a buttoned-down firm in Manhattan.
        Wired
        3
        Very out of character for the buttoned-down executive with whom she had been working.
        Shadow zone
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        Altun's was grey, and the shirt had a buttoned-down collar.
        Exit wound
        5
        Welch's tenure has coincided with the transformation of C.E.O.s from buttoned-down bureaucrats into cultural celebrities.
        The new yorker
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        He wore a conservative tie, buttoned-down oxford shirt, and a dark suit beneath the white coat.
        A fierce radiance: a novel
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        The buttoned-down, serious Mr Raab is seen by many as a rising star in the conservative movement.
        News.com.au
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        She had all the proper affectations of the model junior attorneyambitious, hardworking, buttoned-down, dedicated, and so forth.
        Private Sector
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        Bolger's ebullient high spirits also brought a breath of fresh air into a formal, buttoned-down business world.
        The Irish Times
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        Not him, or any of the producers, promoters, and buttoned-down executives who fawned over the great Brian McAvoy.
        Public secrets
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        In another, he is in buttoned-down dress shirt, looking relaxed and easing into an armchair, a patriarchal figure.
        Reuters
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        He was probably one of those buttoned-down guys who couldn't love anyone unless he was terrified of them.
        An arsonist's guide to writers' homes in new england: a novel
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        What if some buttoned-down Telecom engineer had driven to work early that morning to get some work done?
        Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic fr...
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        Childs' lawyers had argued that he was a buttoned-down, security-obsessed administrator who believed he was simply doing his job.
        Reuters
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        He dresses in the preppie style of a much younger man, with American-style buttoned-down collars and bright, confident ties.
        The Irish Times
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        He's too buttoned-down for that.
        The smoke room: a novel of suspense