prissy

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

Nailer had expected Nita’s prissy distaste for the slums of the Orleans to continue, but she adapted quickly, with a fierce attention to whatever Tool and Nailer taught.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi