prissy
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- prissily adverb
- prissiness noun
Etymology
Origin of 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
He disparages “the global diplomatic system” as anachronistic, prissy, overpopulated.
From Washington Post • May 6, 2022
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
Acknowledging this by seeking better language is a basic effort to be polite, not prissy.
From Scientific American • Feb. 20, 2021
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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