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Webster 1913 Edition


Primly

Prim′ly

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adv.
In a prim or precise manner.

Definition 2024


primly

primly

English

Adverb

primly (comparative more primly, superlative most primly)

  1. In a prim manner.
    • 1949, Raymond Chandler, The Little Sister
      She was a small, neat, rather prissy-looking girl with primly smooth brown hair and rimless glasses []

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