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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Characterized by good manners: civil, courteous, mannerly, polite, well-bred, well-mannered. See COURTESY. 2. Marked by excessive concern for propriety and good form: bluenosed, old-maidish, precise, priggish, prim, prissy, proper, prudish, puritanical, strait-laced, stuffy, Victorian. Idioms: prim and proper. See PLAIN.
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