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buttoned-down

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but·ton-down (btn-doun)
adj.
1. Having the ends of the collar fastened down by buttons: a button-down shirt.
2. also but·toned-down (btnd-) Conservative, conventional, or unimaginative: "a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-gray world of business" (Newsweek).
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Adj.1.buttoned-down - unimaginatively conventional; "a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business"- Newsweek
button-down, conservative
conventional - unimaginative and conformist; "conventional bourgeois lives"; "conventional attitudes"


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He is described as a white or light-skinned black man between 40 and 50 years old, 6 feet to 6 feet 2 inches tall, 180-190 pounds, wearing large prescription glasses and buttoned-down shirts and dress pants.
BRIEFLY by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
In 1965, when The Offering was shot, China was a closed country and Toronto a buttoned-down, Anglo Saxon town.
The Best of Secter & the Rest of Secter by Tong, Allan / Take One
Some of us choose the secure, buttoned-down environment of Johnson & Johnson or Procter & Gamble.
Giving thanks to Hollywood--well, sort of by Lacter, Mark / Los Angeles Business Journal
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