prissy

Example Sentences

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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

The kind I wouldn’t mind squatting in under different circumstances—although the decor is a little too prissy for my tastes.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman