Prissy in a sentence as an adjective

Share the best bits - but don't get all prissy over anyone else doing the same.

In my experience, people who dislike swearing are prissy, small-minded bigots.

Actually, trying to impose a rigid ideology on others is a large part of what makes them prissy.

I might also say something prissy like "that'll have to do" or "I guess", so we both know I know but I'm not gonna call you out on it.

There used to be mad, silly, prissy people who used to say swearing was a sign of a poor vocabulary -such utter nonsense.

I'm with Stephen Fry on this one:"There used to be mad, silly, prissy people who used to say swearing was a sign of a poor vocabulary.

Canadians are known to be one of the only cultures more prissy than Americans so you entire comment is invalid.

I was confused as to the response to Mr. T shows that you can be cool and have morals\n\nwith Mr. T cut down a bunch of trees and pissed off some\n prissy rich people back in 1987

Because here I thought we were more mature than to get prissy over naughty language, particularly when it's not attempting to evoke naughty imagery.

For all the people who claim that swearing is essentially as innocuous as any other speech, and only prissy people think anything of it at all, it would be interesting to see their behavior around their professional or social superiors.

For a bunch of hackers on hacker news, there's an awful lot of prissy "ew, might get my hands dirty" feedback going on heresorry, but it's been a long day and I'm sick to the back teeth of people bitching about other people's hard work because it's not exactly to their liking

It claims that everywhere is deathly threats and that we need to build up a bulwark of legal defenses to protect us from the ever present dreadnaughts of closed-sourcedness, that we must be adhere to a prissy and ultraconservative standard of conduct in hacker circles to be vigilant against the enemy.

Prissy definitions

adjective

exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"

adjective

excessively fastidious and easily disgusted; "too nice about his food to take to camp cooking"; "so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow"

See also: dainty nice overnice squeamish