primness
- 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.