adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a look of prissy disapproval
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She always irritated me - she was so prissy .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Art Lux and Vinny Pearson, the newspapers, the party bigwigs, the whole prissy state of Minnesota.
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I suppose if Rupert had not been a bear he might have been considered prissy , like Noddy.
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Stepan Verkhovensky is prissy , frenchified, very feminine though not at all homosexual.
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To argue would be prissy , he decided.