| 释义 |
ˈprimly, adv.
[f. prim a. + -ly2.]
In a prim or precise manner, with primness.
1837Mrs. Carlyle Lett. (1883) I. 66 She primly promulgates her opinion that influenza is masculine. 1853–8Hawthorne Eng. Note-Bks. (1879) II. 207 The grounds..had not the appearance of being very primly kept. 1897Bookman Jan. 122/2 She was not quite so primly decorous as the young persons of her epoch. |
