prissiness
- noun
- /ˈprɪsɪnəs/
- Informal
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afectación
- He was criticized for his prissiness when he complained about the casual dress code at the event.
Examples
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The prissiness of the reviews indicated that the critics were easily offended by the film's bold humor.
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A common variety is a kind of prissiness about word choice.
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Jack Lemmon's version of Felix had a degree of prissiness, and Tony Randall's was more petulant.
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The comparison to Reagan's joke assumes that the criticism of Dunham's ad was based on prissiness about sexuality, but it was really about trivializing the election and treating women as if they vote based on their sexual attraction toward the President.
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Her prissiness about table manners made every family dinner feel formal and stiff.
Synonyms
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7.0
Very formal and correct in clothes and manners, often strict and stiff
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8.4
Being easily shocked and embarrassed by sex or the body
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8.9
Being too easily shocked by talk about sex
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7.7
Being very proper and formal in a way that feels stiff
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7.4
A feeling of being tense and nervous that makes it hard to relax
A way of behaving that is too proper and judges others for small mistakes
Shyness about showing your body or talking about sex
Antonyms
How Prissy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Prissiness comes from prissy, an old slang word for someone too 'proper' or easily 'shocked'. It is like the words prude and prim, which mean being very careful about manners, so prissiness means being fussy about what is proper or decent.