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Перевод: primness

[существительное]
жеманство; чопорность

Тезаурус:

1. "Tell me, Constable," she said, sipping her drink with maidenly primness, "the small gentleman lunching with your sergeant.
2. Why should I meekly sit down and take her schoolmistressly primness like a naughty boy.
3. He also noticed a certain rectitude, a tight primness, at odds with his easy sociability.
4. Were the other senior nursing staff like her in their attitudes to prim primness and correctness or were some of them laxer than that?
5. The Left will never be able to renounce its primness.
6. She slid out of bed and slipped her arms into her dressing gown, aware that his eyes were mocking her primness.
7. I had seen shyness stiffen her into a quite absurd primness.
8. The staircase was ornamented at intervals with classical figures, chastely draped, and there was still a sweet primness in the graceful propriety of their attitudes though some were lacking a hand or an arm and others had had their noses rot away or even been entirely decapitated by exposure to the elements, and all were soot-stained and weather-beaten.
9. "A drink will be fine, Chris," she said and her friendly grin took any primness out of the remark.