priss

• “In the series, the southerners are portrayed as wussy appeasers and the South Carolina representative, Edward Rutledge, is especially played as a priss which is somehow gratifying after campaigns in which the South is portrayed as the home of martial and American values.”

  Matt Cooper: John Adams: Good for McCain -- and Kerry, Dukakis

• “It was no wonder that even Miss Pole Stuck Up Her Ass, priss of a boss of hers wanted Rickie Ross so bad.”

  Simon & Schuster: I.O.U.

• “I have to admit I am a bit of a priss when it comes to swearing and profanities.”

  Writing Rules « Write Anything

• “The movie turns broad and slightly smarmy when it portrays the conventioneers as hapless Babbitts, and overstresses Tim's status as a hick or, worse still, a priss.”

  The Wall Street Journal: 'Gnomeo': A Bard's Garden of Delights

• “The words he spoke were gone forever, a memory only to those who heard them, never to fly back into his face after going viral on him, or bollocks-up his career prospects due to their nonconformity to the range of acceptable ideas, and he was well beyond the reach of Bowdler and the priss who Gribbenized Huckleberry Finn.”

  Fictionaut: Eddie's Story

• “My inner priss reared her ugly head, chastising them with Oh, come on!”

  If Your Child Farts In A Forest, And You Laugh, Will Anybody Hear It And Judge You? | Her Bad Mother

• “Her perfect priss of a big sister, her married big sister, had a boyfriend!”

  Simon & Schuster: Fly Away Home

• “Ellie Dupuis East Bridgewater, Massachusetts Whom is an archaic pronoun, pedantic and fussy, but it's occasionally dusted off and deployed to priss up a sentence.”

  Wired: Rants

• “Of course, my inner priss-priss culls through popular culture from the 60s, 70s and 80s and hurls images at me to make me feel bad.”

  Suz Redfearn: I Love Xanax

• “I stood by her through the leers and sniggers, casting dirty looks at her tormentors, and maybe the fact that I was considered a bit of a priss actually helped, because by the end of the week, people were clearly getting bored with humiliating her.”

  Simon & Schuster: Dreaming in French

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