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In some senses, buttoned-up is marked as figuratively. Watch for register when choosing this word.
buttoned-up
adj 3
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2VERB + BUTTONED-UP
wearing
BUTTONED-UP + NOUN
blouse
Definitions
adj
1
Conservative.
2
Carefully planned and executed.
3
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see button up.
It should be obvious by now that most of what goes on in the Bulova commercial does not depend very much on an appeal to the rational part of the mind—the “logos” of Aristotle. If it were to depend on such an appeal to the reason, it might show the same woman, but dressed sensibly in a nice buttoned-up dress and wearing her glasses.
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It should be obvious by now that most of what goes on in the Bulova commercial does not depend very much on an appeal to the rational part of the mind—the “logos” of Aristotle. If it were to depend on
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She's wearing a buttoned-up blouse.
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