Meanings of rather prim in inglés

His round, fresh-coloured face maintained its habitual expression of rather prim gravity.

A rather prim woman in a black dress asked me my purpose.

Mrs. Tunap was a rather prim lady in a green turban.

She has rather prim ideas about things, but she's a stickler for principle.

She was still gentle, and rather prim and quite self-possessed.

Marilla's was a rather prim and colorless epistle, severely innocent of gossip or emotion.

Mr. Timm had a pale, smooth, sharp face, a rather prim manner, and a quick, modest gait.

She was a quiet, intense little girl, rather prim in her way, and this outpouring was unusual.

She sat there rather straight and rather prim between her parents, sticking to them, smoothing creases for them, bearing their weight, living for them.

They ran and then walked fast, up Chorister Lane, past the rather prim modern shops there called Kiddicloes and Boddikare, and around under the cathedral.

"I'm very sorry, ma'am," came Bonnie's rather prim reply.

'It sounds rather prim, don't you think?'

"There is something so beautiful in unselfishness," said Daisy, in a rather prim, moralizing little tone.