primadjective
uk/prɪm/us/prɪm/primmer, primmest disapprovingvery formal and correct in behaviour and easily shocked by anything rude:
She's much too prim and proper to drink pints of beer.
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Narrow-minded
- be set in your ways idiom
- be wearing blinders idiom
- be wearing blinkers idiom
- blinker
- blinkered
- hidebound
- insular
- intolerance
- intolerant
- myopic
- narrow-minded
- parochial
- petty
- prissy
- set
- short-sighted
- strait-laced
- unreconstructed
- unthinking
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primly
adverb uk/ˈprɪm.li/us/ˈprɪm.li/
primly dressed