primness's Usage Examples:

good-hearted battle-axe; Ethel Coleridge as the voice of middle-class primness; and the saturnine Gordon James.

and pathetic "To a Garden Full of Posies", to her scarcely controlled primness in "I Once Was a Very Abandoned Person", succeeded by her repeated outbursts.

refined and described as "sensitive to the delicate, teacup-and-saucer primness and feminine outlook of the early Victorian novelists," while other work.

song "Swift at her peak" that "serves to assert both her power and her primness".

keeping the deliberate beats and soaring melodies but replacing choirboy primness with a percussive whomp.

Synonyms:

prudery; modestness; modesty; prudishness; Grundyism;

Antonyms:

unseemliness; indecorum; incorrectness; expensiveness; immodesty;