prissy
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Harry, too, is Dickensian, but more like one of Dickens’s monstrous, red-eyed lawyers: He is cruel, peremptory and, with his dyed hair and prissy bow tie, dandyish in his self-regard.
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2022
UIC’s prissy bullies, like fanatics generally, have no sense of irony.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 11, 2022
Acknowledging this by seeking better language is a basic effort to be polite, not prissy.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 20, 2021
I joined Blue Peter when I was 28, so I wasn’t going to be living a nun-like existence, but the first responsibility was always – it sounds so prissy – to the viewer.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 19, 2019
“So from sitting with the prissy pretty girl to sitting with me.”
From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben
Post-independence India had stricter, prissier demarcations – between the polite and the profane, the admissible and the inadmissible – than the India energised by the free market.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 2, 2013
For the prissiest of your relatives, you can play the finale: a seriously heartfelt chorale of “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.”
From Time ● Dec. 25, 2012
May Belle was imitating Ellie s prissiest manner.
From "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson
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Bridge to Terabithia
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