With sufficient amplitude to conceal a look of primness that often arises from symmetry, we observe a certain negligent flowing of its leafy robes that adds to its dignity a grace which is apparent to all.
She had none of that primness which, is the outcome of an attempt to conceal the fact, that knowledge of which one is ashamed is continually uppermost in the mind.
There is a want of primness in the manners and customs of my characters which a reviewer might take exception to.
She was a small woman, lean, wrinkled, and with a curious mixture of primness and slovenliness in her dress.
The visitor will be at first struck by the extreme regularity of the streets, and the look of primnesswhich invests them.
The whole architectural appearance of the city is one of primness rather than of grandeur, which might not inappropriately suggest for it the name of the "Quaker City of the West.
Save for a certain primness as she offered the tray to her sister, Sophia's demeanour gave no sign whatever that the Amazon in her was aroused.
No primness about her as she stood alone there in the parlour; no pretence that Maggie's notice to leave was an everyday document, to be casually glanced at--as one glances at an unpaid bill!
Here she is, not "dallying and dangerous" on a couch as in the version at the Garrick Club, but very charming, with a touch of primness that suits her.
Neat beds in the front of the house were covered with the richest flowers, and well trimmed lawns sloping away at either side of the spacious building, thrust the idea of primness on the intruder.
She said it with such a copy-book primness that the porter set her down as a school-teacher.
She clung to him in the most barefaced fashion, and all her former primness and reserve were swept away completely.
And yet she was a born old maid; looking at her, and taking all her primness and little set ways into consideration, it was quite impossible to picture her as the wife of Mr. Malcolm MacPherson, or anybody else.
Then it was that the house seemed to withdraw suddenly into the primness of virginal white paint.
At such times, if the great front door was left open on a warm day, the house took on a look of open-mouthed horror, which immediately relapsed to primness once the door was closed.
Fifty-six per cent reported cases of superfine elegance or affected primness or precision in the use of words.
Manners, a word too often relegated to the past as savoring of the primness of the ancient dame school or female seminary, are really minor or sometimes major morals.
He wondered whether she had overcome that failing, whether she still affected the artificiality which was so adorable a relief from the primness of manner which he had thought the natural way of women.
But the door opened, one of the elderly ladies entered, the girl behind the counter stiffened to primness in a flash, and I went out into Royal Street as the curly dog's tail wagged his greeting to the newcomer.
Who would have dreamed that behind her primness all this frolic lay in ambush?
Grey was her only concession to colour, and her gowns and bonnets were of a primness which belonged to the past.
I marvelled, too, at theprimness and solidity of the houses along the road, and remarked how their lines belonged rather to the landscape than to themselves.
There was no more silence and primness after the minister's wife entered.
After Mrs. Maxwell had left the room, the guests sat around with a kind of solemn primness as if they were in meeting; they seemed almost hostile.
In her jubilant moments she got rid of the primness which most people associated with her.
Snow-white cuffs and collar, with a plain dark dress, cut with almost Quaker-like simplicity, bespoke the primness of her taste.
Johnson's primness had vanished now as he thought of the women waiting at home, and he began to run as hard as he could down the Kingsland Road.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "primness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
