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buttoned-down

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"I had on khakis and a buttoned-down shirt, and I had to stand by the door and get chewed out for about 15 minutes.

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Quick take

unimaginatively conventional; "a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business"- Newsweek

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adjective

unimaginatively conventional; "a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business"- Newsweek

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for buttoned-down.

adjective

unimaginatively conventional; "a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business"- Newsweek

See also: button-down, conservative

Example sentences

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"I had on khakis and a buttoned-down shirt, and I had to stand by the door and get chewed out for about 15 minutes.

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Stop being buttoned-down corporate and appeal to the fanatic feeling that still exists for the Mac> 23.

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And what about all the free software/open source advocates that came out of buttoned-down tech schools like MIT, including Richard Stallman?

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But choking all of the less buttoned-down, more rebellious voices is a pretty sure path towards killing the creative spirits that made a lot of today's profits possible.

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Products that are great for people who are throwing around money in a frothy bubble environment can be millsontes in a buttoned-down, post-crash situation.

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There won't be much independence to ask hard questions when buttoned-down Bloomberg lifers are brought in to keep the kids in line and global multinationals like Hyundai are footing the bill.

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How do you use buttoned-down in a sentence?

"I had on khakis and a buttoned-down shirt, and I had to stand by the door and get chewed out for about 15 minutes.

What does buttoned-down mean?

unimaginatively conventional; "a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business"- Newsweek

What part of speech is buttoned-down?

buttoned-down is commonly used as adjective.