prissy
Example Sentences
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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
In the original show, this number at least gets a big choral send-off; in the dry, crackly hands of Dame Judi, it becomes a prissy, self-satisfied catechism.
From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2019
This experience left me with the conclusion that our first president, besides having frizzy hair, a large red hooked nose, and apple cheeks, had a prissy, even old-ladyish mouth and a double chin.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
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Bridge to Terabithia
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