prissy
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Opposite Corbery, Clément Hervieu-Léger is prissy and repressed as a bewigged Robespierre, with a dancer’s ramrod posture throughout.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2023
He disparages “the global diplomatic system” as anachronistic, prissy, overpopulated.
From Washington Post ● May 6, 2022
Acknowledging this by seeking better language is a basic effort to be polite, not prissy.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 20, 2021
The prissy delivery, that thing he does with his mouth that’s less John Wayne than Clara Bow or Claudette Colbert.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 15, 2020
“I see,” said the principal, and you could practically see the wheels spinning in that prissy head of hers.
From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson
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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