Prissy
adjective
Behaving or dressing too perfectly, in a way that gives a feeling of being superior.
She has a prissy way of talking, which might annoy some people
Often appears as...
- prissy manner
- prissy voice
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Disapproving
adjective
Showing dislike for anything seen as dirty or untidy.
She's so prissy about her food, she won't even try anything new!
Often appears as...
- prissy about food
- prissy about cleanliness
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Behaving or dressing too perfectly, in a way that gives a feeling of being superior.
She has a prissy way of talking, which might annoy some people
Often appears as...
- prissy manner
- prissy voice
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Showing dislike for anything seen as dirty or untidy.
She's so prissy about her food, she won't even try anything new!
Often appears as...
- prissy about food
- prissy about cleanliness
Usage tips
Disapproving
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Pro Tip 1/3Negative Nuance
Prissy often carries a negative tone, suggesting annoyance or irritation with someone's behavior.
Don't be so prissy; just sit anywhere and enjoy the picnic.
Pro Tip 2/3Superior Attitude
Use 'prissy' to describe someone acting with an air of superiority because of prim or precise behavior.
Her prissy attitude at the casual gathering made everyone uncomfortable.
Pro Tip 3/3Formality Mismatch
Using 'prissy' implies a person's overly formal behavior doesn't match the informal setting.
He seemed so prissy, insisting on using full cutlery at a fast-food restaurant.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Nuance
Prissy often carries a negative tone, suggesting annoyance or irritation with someone's behavior.
Don't be so prissy; just sit anywhere and enjoy the picnic.
Pro Tip 2/3Superior Attitude
Use 'prissy' to describe someone acting with an air of superiority because of prim or precise behavior.
Her prissy attitude at the casual gathering made everyone uncomfortable.
Pro Tip 3/3Formality Mismatch
Using 'prissy' implies a person's overly formal behavior doesn't match the informal setting.
He seemed so prissy, insisting on using full cutlery at a fast-food restaurant.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Nuance
Prissy often carries a negative tone, suggesting annoyance or irritation with someone's behavior.
Don't be so prissy; just sit anywhere and enjoy the picnic.
Pro Tip 2/3Superior Attitude
Use 'prissy' to describe someone acting with an air of superiority because of prim or precise behavior.
Her prissy attitude at the casual gathering made everyone uncomfortable.
Pro Tip 3/3Formality Mismatch
Using 'prissy' implies a person's overly formal behavior doesn't match the informal setting.
He seemed so prissy, insisting on using full cutlery at a fast-food restaurant.
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"They think that we all have Confederate flags in our yards, that we're racist and sexist and uneducated." "They think we're barefoot and pregnant, with dirt driveways." "And they think we're all prissy butts and that we walk around in hoop skirts with cotton fields in the background." And then we asked that same question of the
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"They think that we all have Confederate flags in our yards, that we're racist and sexist and uneducated." "They think we're barefoot and pregnant, with dirt driveways." "And they think we're all prissy butts and that we walk around in hoop skirts with cotton fields in the background." And then we asked that same question of the
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Carrie Underwood
American Musician
So many people always try to help me carry my luggage and help me do things I can do myself. If I can do it myself, I'm going to do it myself. I'm not going to let other people do it for me, and I think that's a big part of where I came from. I'm not a real prissy girl.
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Debbie Gibson
American Musician
I don't know if people feel this way, but I think by nature that when you start off as a young pop singer, they assume that you're a bit pampered, prissy, and precious, or that you live in a bubble and not in the real world. For me that's not the case.
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Jesmyn Ward
American Novelist
I hope that I never have to work in a place that sells large quantities of jeans ever again. Jeans are rough! It used to kill my hands. I know that sounds prissy - I'm not prissy at all. But it did; it killed my hands. It was awful.
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Lionel Shriver
American Journalist
By stereotyping my work's audience as self-involved and prissy, women-only packaging also insults my readers, who could all testify that trussing up my novels as sweet, girly, and soft is like stuffing a Rottweiler in a dress.
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Jaime Pressly
American Dancer
I do think being a prissy tomboy helps me in raising a son in general. I wrestle with him, play ball, play in the sandbox with him. As a mom, you get bruises, scrapes on your knee.
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Richard P. Feynman
American Physicist
Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime, we have to be very prissy about how we tell computers to do things.
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Christine and the Queens
French Musician
Christine was me wanting to break free. I was tired of being prissy and shrinking and apologising all of the time, so I created a character that could be daring for me.
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Natalie Jeremijenko
Australian Artist
The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.
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Debby Ryan
American Actress
More than anything, acting helped me discover who I'm not. I've learned that I'm a girly girl, but not a prissy girl.
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Catherine Deneuve
French Actress
I was never a dangerous woman. I'm not the prissy blonde woman that could take your husband away.
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Carrie Underwood
American Musician
So many people always try to help me carry my luggage and help me do things I can do myself. If I can do it myself, I'm going to do it myself. I'm not going to let other people do it for me, and I think that's a big part of where I came from. I'm not a real prissy girl.
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Debbie Gibson
American Musician
I don't know if people feel this way, but I think by nature that when you start off as a young pop singer, they assume that you're a bit pampered, prissy, and precious, or that you live in a bubble and not in the real world. For me that's not the case.
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Jesmyn Ward
American Novelist
I hope that I never have to work in a place that sells large quantities of jeans ever again. Jeans are rough! It used to kill my hands. I know that sounds prissy - I'm not prissy at all. But it did; it killed my hands. It was awful.
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Lionel Shriver
American Journalist
By stereotyping my work's audience as self-involved and prissy, women-only packaging also insults my readers, who could all testify that trussing up my novels as sweet, girly, and soft is like stuffing a Rottweiler in a dress.
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Jaime Pressly
American Dancer
I do think being a prissy tomboy helps me in raising a son in general. I wrestle with him, play ball, play in the sandbox with him. As a mom, you get bruises, scrapes on your knee.
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Richard P. Feynman
American Physicist
Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime, we have to be very prissy about how we tell computers to do things.
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Christine and the Queens
French Musician
Christine was me wanting to break free. I was tired of being prissy and shrinking and apologising all of the time, so I created a character that could be daring for me.
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Natalie Jeremijenko
Australian Artist
The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.
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Debby Ryan
American Actress
More than anything, acting helped me discover who I'm not. I've learned that I'm a girly girl, but not a prissy girl.
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Catherine Deneuve
French Actress
I was never a dangerous woman. I'm not the prissy blonde woman that could take your husband away.
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