buttoned-downadjective [ before noun ]
uk/ˌbʌt.əndˈdaʊn/us/ˌbʌt̬.əndˈdaʊn/also button-down USformal and old-fashioned or boring:
a buttoned-down accountant/lawyer
How well will Landman's laid-back attitude merge with the more button-down style at Hughes Electronics Corp.?
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Manners & levels of formality
- ceremonial
- ceremonious
- ceremony
- decency
- decorum
- formal
- formally
- gentility
- grace
- ground rules
- impropriety
- informal
- propriety
- pukka
- refinement
- solemnity
- stand on ceremony idiom
- stiff
- stiffly
- valediction
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