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priss
[ pris ]
noun
- someone who is excessively prim, proper, or fussy; an affectedly dainty or prissy person:
Call me a priss, but I think the relentless explicitness in this novel reduces the characters somehow.
verb (used without object)
- to act or move in a prim, fussy, or affectedly dainty way, like a priss:
I’m not one to primp and priss over myself in the bathroom.
At halftime I like to see the baton twirlers priss around in their itty-bitty costumes.
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Example Sentences
Charlotte was always a retrograde priss, Carrie has always been slow to adapt new forms of communication despite being a professional communicator — remember how she took years to buy a cellphone and was mystified by EMAIL?
Amina keeps her musical activities a secret from her devout school friends, forcing the already nervous priss into a double life.
The actor Louis Edmonds, who came out later in life, gave a delicious performance as the irritable priss Roger Collins, who wears cravats and turtlenecks and uses words like “preposterous.”
"Carla, you're such a priss," Sandi taunted her.
“Sonny, Jack’s ready to go. He said you’ve got about five seconds or he’s going to leave you here with Miss Priss.”
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