priss

Example Sentences

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Charlotte was always a retrograde priss, Carrie has always been slow to adapt new forms of communication despite being a professional communicator — remember how she took years to buy a cellphone and was mystified by EMAIL?

From Los Angeles Times

Amina keeps her musical activities a secret from her devout school friends, forcing the already nervous priss into a double life.

From Washington Post

The actor Louis Edmonds, who came out later in life, gave a delicious performance as the irritable priss Roger Collins, who wears cravats and turtlenecks and uses words like “preposterous.”

From New York Times

Since she was generally esteemed an unbearable Miss Priss, this did her a world of good and earned her much approval.

From Literature

Rachel was Miss Priss and now she is a freak of nature.

From Literature