prissy

Example Sentences

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Spears also played basketball in school and worked at a seafood restaurant cleaning shellfish and serving plates of food “while doing my prissy dancing in my cute little outfits,” the singer wrote.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 26, 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

Young Walter Taylor was up, annoyed, prissy, defending General Lee’s night’s rest even against Longstreet, who glowed once with the beginning of rage, and sent Taylor off to get the old man out of bed.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara