Similar words: buttoned, buttoned-up, unbuttoned, button-down, bed down, bowed down, knocked down, carried down. Meaning: adj. unimaginatively conventional.
1. In these buttoned-down times, it would be treated like an al-Qaida training camp.
2. Maybe your casual style doesn't fly in your buttoned-down workplace.
3. This newly buttoned-down approach coincides with a planned shift in the top leadership of the ruling party and government, an intricate process that will last for the next year.
4. Beneath his buttoned-down appearance was a tough mind and a brave heart.
5. Most newcomers aren't yet doing much real business there, preferring more buttoned-down sites like LinkedIn or e-mail for maintaining professionalcontacts.
6. Maybe it is because IBM has such the reputation as a buttoned-down blue suit sort of corporation.
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