Significados de too prim en inglés

Look out sharp, if he has lately been too prim.

But it was too orderly, too prim for a mine.

She swallowed hard, knowing she looked too prim in her simple black Chanel dress.

No; that is too prim and prudish a term.

But the figure itself is too prim and modish.

Something not too prim, not with that color-

Her clever husband thinks her too prim.

It is a little too prim and ready-to-wear for me, if you'll excuse me for saying so.

It is too literary, too prim, too nice; the gait and style and movement are not suited to narrative.

Pompeii was too brash, Herculaneum too prim, and the thermal spa at Stabiae chockablock with wheezing old gentlemen and their snooty wives.

Not indeed that he was growing old in the sense of becoming too prim or particular to indulge in boyish sports and pranks.