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  • n  excessive or affected modesty
  • n  exaggerated and arrogant properness

  • The breast-fallen lady he is referring to is that model of middle-aged primness, Dustin Hoffman, 44.
  • Lysette Anthony (Save Me) promises prurience beneath the primness; her blond middle-class looks make her a natural to play Hillary Clinton in a DTV epic.
  • There was something about her reserve, her primness and her utter lack of modern affect that made her seem as if she had stepped out of a 19th-century painting.

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