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- noun The state or quality of being excessively
prim orproper .
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Examples
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The first lesson: that however much I might like to say that I was being prissy about it because I wanted to Avoid Being Pedantic, or that, yes, my reluctance to use the term was pure prissiness but that my prissiness is not a function of Bigger Issues, neither of these statements is truthful.
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As for the author's detection of racism and sexism, I would argue this kind of prissiness makes inevitable the rise of
unknown title 2009
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David was not alone in making such a poor choice, however, because, "It's a ghetto thing, this prissiness."
John Thompson: Stray Dogs, Saints, and Saviors John Thompson 2011
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David was not alone in making such a poor choice, however, because, "It's a ghetto thing, this prissiness."
John Thompson: Stray Dogs, Saints, and Saviors John Thompson 2011
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It was the whole damned caboodle: the clever dickery, the snobbery, the preppy prissiness and the screaming, stomach-churning, nausea-inducing, and apparently universal, contempt for women.
Christina Patterson: The Social Network That Made Me Sick Christina Patterson 2010
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It was the whole damned caboodle: the clever dickery, the snobbery, the preppy prissiness and the screaming, stomach-churning, nausea-inducing, and apparently universal, contempt for women.
Christina Patterson: The Social Network That Made Me Sick Christina Patterson 2010
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It was the whole damned caboodle: the clever dickery, the snobbery, the preppy prissiness and the screaming, stomach-churning, nausea-inducing, and apparently universal, contempt for women.
Christina Patterson: The Social Network That Made Me Sick Christina Patterson 2010
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It was the whole damned caboodle: the clever dickery, the snobbery, the preppy prissiness and the screaming, stomach-churning, nausea-inducing, and apparently universal, contempt for women.
Christina Patterson: The Social Network That Made Me Sick Christina Patterson 2010
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Shatner physical hamminess-- along with Nimoy's ability to imbue Spock with emotional tension--saved the show from unbearable prissiness, I'd say.
Star Trek and Sixties Design, #18: An Interesting Plainness Fresca 2010
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It was the whole damned caboodle: the clever dickery, the snobbery, the preppy prissiness and the screaming, stomach-churning, nausea-inducing, and apparently universal, contempt for women.
Christina Patterson: The Social Network That Made Me Sick Christina Patterson 2010
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