Crossword-Solution: PRIMNESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Primness | n. | The quality or state of being prim; affected formality or niceness; preciseness; stiffness. |
We have 19 clues for the answer “PRIMNESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| STATE of being precise | 1 answer |
| pudency | 15 answers |
| puritanic | 17 answers |
| prudishness | 17 answers |
| priggishness | 17 answers |
| pompousness | 17 answers |
| Parading. | 18 answers |
| pedantry | 21 answers |
| prudery | 23 answers |
| pageantry | 25 answers |
| stuffiness | 27 answers |
| sombreness | 31 answers |
| grimness | 32 answers |
| stateliness | 33 answers |
| coldness | 40 answers |
| pietism | 40 answers |
| Parade | 54 answers |
| dignity | 71 answers |
| flourish | 88 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETRAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PRIMNESS (5)
Robert'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.
Snow white cuffs and collar, with a plain dark dress, cut with almost Quaker-like simplicity, bespoke the primness of her taste.
She had heard from time to time as much as she cared to hear about the world of a generation before--of its bareness and discomfort, its primness, its repulsive piety, its ignorance of all that made life bright and attractive--how it quite overlooked this life in its agitation about the extremely problematic life to come.
Many an old book, which to a modern grown person may seem prim and over-rigid, will be to the child a delight; for him the primness and the severity slip away, the story remains.
The Musgrave Ritual An anomaly which often struck me in the character of my friend Sherlock Holmes was that, although in his methods of thought he was the neatest and most methodical of mankind, and although also he affected a certain quiet primness of dress, he was none the less in his personal habits one of the most untidy men that ever drove a fellow-lodger to distraction.
Quotes with PRIMNESS (2)
Your trouble has been what old poets call Daungier. We call it Pride. You are offended by the masculine itself: the loud, irruptive, possessive thing-the gold lion, the bearded bull — which breaks through hedges and scatters the little kingdom of your primness. . . . The male you could have escaped, for it exists only on the biological level. But the masculine none of us can escape. What is above and beyond all things is so masculine that we are all feminine in relation to it.
Bermuda's beaches are justly famed for their pink sands, colored by the pulverized shells of single-celled organisms called foraminifera. When occupied by bikini-clad sunbathers, the beaches, with Victorian primness, appear to be blushing.