p pa pb pc pd pe pf pg ph pi pk pl pm pn po pp pr ps pt pu pv pw px py

Перевод: prim

[прилагательное]
чопорный; натянутый; аккуратный; подтянутый;
[глагол]
принимать строгий вид; напускать на себя важный вид

Тезаурус:

1. The high-class cast is headed by Helena Bonham Carter as the prim girl transformed by her experiences in Italy, and Judy Davis as the perennial spinster, whose sensuality is dulled beyond recall.
2. Some houses frown; some look indignant, prim or shy; but this one looked you straight in the face and greeted you with a smile.
3. One old lady sitting upright, prim and wearing round National Health Service glasses, became agitated as I approached her chair.
4. In spite of this awareness, it seems extraordinary that the candidate in Madrid favoured by Prim and his government was one who was bound to be unacceptable to Napoleon III for the simple reason that he was a son of King Louis-Philippe and so represented the Orlanist dynasty.
5. The most vicious can suddenly look very prim when assuming the role of the victim.
6. Let me not be prim, she thought, let me be sensible, a woman of the world, let me not be unfair.
7. You know that prim frown, that tilt of the head,
8. Comic account of an impoverished middle-aged bachelor's attempt, initiated and organized by his prosperous friend, Gabriel Parsons, to capture the affections of a prim, well-to-do spinster, Miss Lillerton.
9. A booklet of instructions was issued to American servicemen landing in Britain, and in the light of today's freer manners, and of our familiarity with foreigners, the tone seems prim and earnest indeed: "It isn't a good idea to say "bloody" in mixed company in Britain.
10. The main building is laid out as a four-floor room-by-room illustration of working family life - from the prim living room, to the children's bedroom and maids' cramped attic costume workshop and living quarters.
11. Her name was Gail Danski, a prim-looking chick, but not so prim when you got her into a dark corner, as he had once discovered when taking her home after a school dance.
12. Baldersdale was largely unaffected by contact with outside influences - to travel further than Barnard Castle, a prim and pretty little market town which could scarcely claim to be cosmopolitan, was virtually unheard of and such visitors as there were never stayed long enough to impart revolutionary new ways and ideas.
13. I think now that I need not have been so prim and stand-offish, but I was afraid to wound him further by giving him what might possibly be taken for false "encouragement".