buttoned-down

Adjective
Synonyms: button-downconservative

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (1)

  1. unimaginatively conventional“a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business — Newsweek”Synonyms: button-downconservative
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

buttoned-down \buttoned-down\ adj. conservatively formal and businesslike in dress and manner.

Syn: button-down, conservative. [WordNet 1.5]

a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-gray world of business.— Newsweek
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