buttoned-up

How To Use buttoned-up In A Sentence

• The current trend for a prim, buttoned-up collar lends itself perfectly to brooch wearing. Times, Sunday Times
• Shirts ran the gamut from an easy Nehru collar, or wide, stiff Eton-collar shirts that give new meaning to the phrase buttoned-up. Milan Men's Fashion Week: S&M, Silk Suits & McQueen (PHOTOS)
• The clean lines and beautifully minimalist room was built for languor and comfort, yet the atmosphere was buttoned-up with a starched collar.
• If local women venture onto the dusty streets at all, they sport ankle-length dresses, buttoned-up blouses and 1930s hairstyles with buns and pompadours.
• It fits perfectly the template for the new breed of Britflick; talented rebel clashes with buttoned-up pillars of the establishment, who are forced to unbend, and finally admit that self-expression, and so on, is a good thing.
• Following relatively buttoned-up remarks by FBI Director Robert Mueller, Mr. Dupnik again addressed issues such as antigovernment fervor, lax gun control and what he views as a failed system to deal with the mentally ill. Arizona Elicits Sheriff's Criticism
• She kicked off her new look on Sunday with a buttoned-up blouse and jacket. The Sun
• She kicked off her new look on Sunday with a buttoned-up blouse and jacket. The Sun
• I flashback to Scholz, buttoned-up warm against the cold, his collar clean, his tie neat.
• Where the villain's music has the kind of brassy, descending notes that signal cunning evil, Wells is given an almost wistful flute - music that suggests a meek, buttoned-up Victorian. Undefined