Employers are looking for buttoned-up types.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : one of the most buttoned-up companies in the business. ,Employers are looking for buttoned-up types.    From Dictionary.com. 

Then she smiled in her secretive, buttoned-up way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fortune's Favorites]

"Drop everything," the buttoned-up little man replied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Garden of Beasts]

Also, he plays buttoned-up Will on TV ` s "Will & Grace.".    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 12, 2005] Reference

I had always thought bankers were smart, and buttoned-up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roses are Red]

And you know, we've seen a lot of buttoned-up first ladies.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 20, 2009] Reference

He opened the show with buttoned-up alter-ego Diana Prince.    From Wordnik.com.  [Superhero Style] Reference

Could it be a new trend, like the stained buttoned-up blouse?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nour Akkad: Fragrance Bizarre: Paint Perfume In A Spray Can?] Reference

I bet he's poking fun at his image of always being so buttoned-up.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 28, 2008] Reference

And for this buttoned-up conservative with a heart of GOP, it is one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doree Lewak: The Freedom Frank at Gray's Papaya: Let Freedom Relish!] Reference

Normally his buttoned-up doctor's coat revealed only a tanned jawline.    From Wordnik.com.  [Polo] Reference

Networth can ` t cut through the clutter, so buttoned-up Bren is undone.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 22, 2005] Reference

But then he includes this little gem about a mousy buttoned-up secretary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charlotte Hilton Andersen: Ugly Girls Are Easy] Reference

“Their damned little buttoned-up professors!” he cried, incidentally.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Days of the Comet] Reference

They marched for the vote in their knee-grazing skirts and buttoned-up jackets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Single definition of American Woman proves elusive at Costume Institute] Reference

A young man came past them in a closely buttoned-up coat as if he had no shirt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Years] Reference

He wore his signature getup: a snazzy buttoned-up shirt and thick-framed glasses.    From Wordnik.com.  [When You Need a (Black) Friend, Call Jordan Carlos!] Reference

It was more creative, but the buttoned-up culture brought out her mischievous side.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Financial Services] Reference

You know, they were once one of the most beloved, buttoned-up reality show families.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 12, 2008] Reference

He wants to the thing buttoned-up and make this as quiet and professional as possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 9, 2005] Reference

Back on Marco Island, hang with a more buttoned-up crowd of retirees and tourists at Caf.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marco Island: River Wading] Reference

LAH: Japan may be a buttoned-up society, but when it comes to the gadgets, it's a free-for-all.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 24, 2009] Reference

She simmers with sensuality but sports prim shirtdresses, buttoned-up blouses and argyle cardigans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stephanie Green: Is Summer Fin the Next Annie Hall ?] Reference

What both eras have in common: a disinclination to follow rules set by buttoned-up authority figures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lesley M. M. Blume: Woman Of Style Faith-Ann Young: Counterculture Is Back] Reference

‘What Byron calls “the music of the face,”’ observed a tightly buttoned-up, pallid gentleman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Diary of a Superfluous Man and other stories] Reference

One suspects that a lot of them warm more instinctively to Nadal than the more buttoned-up Andy Murray.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wimbledon 2010: Rafael Nadal stretched before seeing off Robin Haase] Reference

It was incredible though, to go from Spring Awakening where we were in these buttoned-up, 1891 costumes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brad Balfour: Q&A: Actor Jonathan Groff's Charmed, Provocative Life On Stage and In Film] Reference

Because of that, you sometimes get the feeling you're dealing with a dry person, buttoned-up to the top button.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russia's Next President] Reference

He is credited with inspiring such styles as the two-day-old beard and the tieless, buttoned-up dress-shirt look.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guggenheim Can't Take Clemente Out of the Guggenheim] Reference

Anyone who'd known Batiste the soldier — straitlaced, buttoned-up, careful, cautious, enthusiastic — was floored.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Night of the Generals] Reference

"In high school Marc would come to our house and lecture my family on stocks," says Bharara, a more buttoned-up salesman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diapers.com Rocks Online Retailing] Reference

HEMMER: Redford was looking for "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," but with his buttoned-up image, producers hesitated.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 24, 2004] Reference

"A great nation such as ours can carry out this plan," the authors wrote with an enthusiasm unusual for the buttoned-up agency.    From Wordnik.com.  [You've Got Drug-Resistant TB! The Ultimate Diagnostic Device.] Reference

Pre-AIDS and bordering on the celibate, George also displays the benign, buttoned-up Gayness currently touted as the homo-ideal.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Kaufman: Tom Ford's A Single Man: Gay, Straight AND Other] Reference

Shirts ran the gamut from an easy Nehru collar, or wide, stiff Eton-collar shirts that give new meaning to the phrase buttoned-up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Milan Men's Fashion Week: S&M, Silk Suits & McQueen (PHOTOS)] Reference

Beneath its buttoned-up surface, England teems with oddball innkeepers, crocodile-riding crackpots, and other Python-esque characters.    From Wordnik.com.  [January 2008] Reference