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Prissy

adjective

Exaggeratedly proper. Synonyms: priggish, prim, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian.

Excessively fastidious and easily disgusted. Synonyms: dainty, nice, overnice, squeamish. "So squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow"

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"Prissy" Quotes from Famous Books

... consider it. But it was too much to accept at once, and Dave's mind was a treadmill. He'd agreed to admit anything, but some of this was such complete nonsense that his mind rejected it automatically. Yet he was sure Ser Perth was serious; there was no humor on the face of the prissy thin-mustached man before him. Nor had the Sather Karf considered it a joke, he was sure. He had a sudden vision of the latter strangling two men from a distance of thirty feet without touching them. That couldn't happen in ...

— The Sky Is Falling • Lester del Rey

Words linked to "Prissy" : fastidious, puritanical, proper