Word familyadverbprissilyadjectiveprissynounprissiness
pris·sy /ˈprɪsi/adjectiveadj informal
OFFENDbehaving very correctly and easily shocked by anything rude – used to show disapproval 谨小慎微的；一本正经的；拘谨的，刻板的〔含贬义〕
—prissilyadverbadv
—prissiness noun [uncountableU]
Examples from the Corpus
prissy• She always irritated me - she was so prissy.• a look of prissy disapproval• Stepan Verkhovensky is prissy, frenchified, very feminine though not at all homosexual.• To argue would be prissy, he decided.• I suppose if Rupert had not been a bear he might have been considered prissy, like Noddy.• Art Lux and Vinny Pearson, the newspapers, the party bigwigs, the whole prissy state of Minnesota.