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
Her sister’s hair was still up in its usual prissy bun, but Molly could see the monster, just beneath that thin mask of humanity they both wore.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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