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- adverb In a
prissy manner; in a manner that is excessivelyprim orproper .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a prissy manner
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Examples
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I should write about what I've seen: expensive women in summer pearls, their blonde faces tanned the shade of their husbands' Church-brand shoes; lacquered restaurants where men, even in this torpid weather, wear black tie and prissily fold their hands so they won't spill their drinks; and in the neatly gardened streets of quiet clapboard houses, rabbits nibbling by moonlight, their usual terror muted by the town's mock-innocence.
New Jersey Moon William Doreski 2011
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It's no fun prissily adhering to grammatical rules if it's mandatory.
Snakes are evil, but save your venom for the self-appointed language police 2010
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"Financial impropriety," narrow-faced Backle said prissily.
Forgetfulness ISCARS 2010
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How ridiculous he must think her, in her running shoes and sweaty workout clothes, flushed with anger and exercise, prissily upbraiding him like an old schoolmarm.
The Aloha Quilt Jennifer Chiaverini 2010
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This week I have tried to reply to this irritating and rather prissily expressed missive from Coucillor James Mac Cleary (Liberal Democrat)
Archive 2008-02-10 Newmania 2008
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How ridiculous he must think her, in her running shoes and sweaty workout clothes, flushed with anger and exercise, prissily upbraiding him like an old schoolmarm.
The Aloha Quilt Jennifer Chiaverini 2010
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How ridiculous he must think her, in her running shoes and sweaty workout clothes, flushed with anger and exercise, prissily upbraiding him like an old schoolmarm.
The Aloha Quilt Jennifer Chiaverini 2010
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Bit paunchy, leering, prissily insistent about the Proper Place of Women?
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This week I have tried to reply to this irritating and rather prissily expressed missive from Coucillor James Mac Cleary (Liberal Democrat)
Letter Two Newmania 2008
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Everybody with eyes to see knows the historical pattern of Republicans making character attacks (that stick) and Democrats prissily sticking to policy attacks, with the result that Republicans win elections.
Dems Open Major Populist Offensive Over McCain's Houses Gaffe 2009
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