prim

prim and precise in one's manner

a very prim and proper lady.

They have primed the explosive device.

the dog's jaws were primed to gnash.

a very prim and proper Swiss lady.

The nation is relying on pump-priming to get the economy started.

guard dogs primed for attack.

It was a strange conjunction—the prim serious young Queen and the elderly,cynical Whig.

She’s too prim to enjoy rude jokes!

Don’t invite her to the party. She’s so prim and proper.

The witness at the trial had been carefully primed by defence lawyers.

Those young ladies are much too prim and proper to enjoy such a rude joke.

As a reporter, you must be well primed with facts before you start to write your article.

Semantic encoding was one of the conditions to priming for new associations, but unitization played a crucial role at the same time.

Application of polyurethane enamel on farmer trucks with key points in the processes of phosphating, priming, atomic ash puttying and enamel spraying is described.

The results replicated the affective priming effect, which showed that responses to affectively congruent trials were faster than affectively incongruent trials under each SOA condition.

This paper expatiated and analyzed the progress and status in amplificative target and design of primer、range of sampling and assistant technique and the relative research fields of CHD gene.