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Buttoned-down

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Adjective

1. button-down, buttoned-down, conservative

unimaginatively conventional

Example Sentences:
'a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business'

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Buttoned-down

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adjective
conventional or conservative
another word for button-down (sense 3)

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Buttoned-down

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adj.
1. Having buttons extending down the front from the collar to the waist: a button-down shirt.
2. Fastened down by buttons: a button-down collar.
3. also but·toned-down (bŭtnd-) Conservative, conventional, or unimaginative: "a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-gray world of business" (Newsweek).
n.
A button-down shirt.

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