The new teacher alienates the children by behaving prissily. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
When he asks Sam for some, Sam prissily tells him no. From Wordnik.com. [Innsmouth Free Press » Retro Recap and Review: Supernatural 2.13: Houses of the Holy] Reference
"Financial impropriety," narrow-faced Backle said prissily. From Wordnik.com. [Forgetfulness] Reference
He dabbed prissily at his lips with a starched white napkin. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Dreams]
“Financial impropriety,” narrow-faced Backle said prissily. From Wordnik.com. [The Blue Nowhere] Reference
You may leave now, he said prissily, then handed her the brochure. From Wordnik.com. [Crazy Love] Reference
It's no fun prissily adhering to grammatical rules if it's mandatory. From Wordnik.com. [Snakes are evil, but save your venom for the self-appointed language police] Reference
Bit paunchy, leering, prissily insistent about the Proper Place of Women?. From Wordnik.com. [Megan Doherty: A Guide to Being Guided] Reference
He was caring, boundlessly loyal, prissily Yankee, and hated being left out. From Wordnik.com. [The Edge of Madness] Reference
Tom Skerritt, uncharacteristically actorish, prissily scratches the surface of the father's role. From Wordnik.com. [Love, Death and Fly-Fishing] Reference
Their old man's slouch, how prissily they hopped, their squeaky calls, their ponderous natures made us laugh. From Wordnik.com. [The Macphersons: Week 49: Soaring In Kiwiland] Reference
“One or zero has to be the most barbaric way of describing another human being,” he said, a tad prissily. From Wordnik.com. [The New Math of the Male Mind: One, Zero] Reference
Behind him, he heard Neald make a ribald joke in a low voice; Grady grunted in reply, and Balwer sniffed prissily. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of Daggers]
Oh, and that if the cops went apeshit on you, a bunch of white people would prissily talk about how you asked for it. From Wordnik.com. [Nothing Has Changed Since The Rodney King Verdict] Reference
Even in this ambitious and highly talented group of friends, David stood out as being, at times, rather prissily conscientious. From Wordnik.com. [Posh & Becks] Reference
(Mr. Bedford, puffed with his own foolish pleasure in newfound sanctimony as Orgon, is a shade too prissily pursed for his downfall.). From Wordnik.com. [A Million Tartuffes Later, Is Moli��re Still Breathing?] Reference
This is the same woman who has spoken repeatedly and rather prissily about teaching her children the value of good manners and good behavior. From Wordnik.com. [Posh & Becks] Reference
He attended Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge where he studied on a mathematics Darn, a coward NEW- prissily overpaid by means of a sorrowful CD. From Wordnik.com. [Planet-x.com.au » Winnie the Pooh A A tape CD australia sale Winnie AudioBook] Reference
And so John writes this Mea Culpa op-ed piece, briefly acknowledging that he howled with laughter, but hastily, and prissily, retracting every chuckle and guffaw. From Wordnik.com. [RE: The Running of the Yokels (By John Tierney, NY Times op-ed)] Reference
How ridiculous he must think her, in her running shoes and sweaty workout clothes, flushed with anger and exercise, prissily upbraiding him like an old schoolmarm. From Wordnik.com. [The Aloha Quilt] Reference
Her hero, David Langston, lives alone in the woods, like Thoreau, but unlike Thoreau he doesn't prissily criticize the townspeople for their hapless acquisitiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Catacomb Efreet] Reference
One of them began zapping away prissily in our wake as the gate swung wide and we passed through onto the paved apron, sterilizing the organic matter our yaga had tracked into the compound. From Wordnik.com. [Perseus Spur]
Everybody with eyes to see knows the historical pattern of Republicans making character attacks (that stick) and Democrats prissily sticking to policy attacks, with the result that Republicans win elections. From Wordnik.com. [Dems Open Major Populist Offensive Over McCain's Houses Gaffe] Reference
Thus grotesquely drenched in ink and blood — prissily "embedded" war correspondents take note — the Daily Transom happily happened upon a way to turn misfortune into, if not fortune, then at least less misery. From Wordnik.com. [Bleeding for Zaha: Chanel and Karl Lagerfeld Can Only Hope to Contain Her] Reference
Britain being a smaller country, lorry drivers - as we prissily call them - can't affect food prices so markedly. From Wordnik.com. [The First Post: Latest] Reference
They’re heavy duty in the pretty department but not prissily so. From Wordnik.com. [Buzzine » I’m Not A Celebrity, But…] Reference
I said prissily, “I believe I’ll have the blue this time,” leaving the red one for him. From Wordnik.com. [Confession] Reference
Mr. Jury "(his doctor had prissily termed it, mouthing the word as if it were a tasty new drink). From Wordnik.com. [The Old Silent]
"I'm making no promises," he said prissily. From Wordnik.com. [The Alibi]
A roomful of Hollywood prissily applauds itself. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-03-01] Reference
Or as your dead translator might prissily insist. From Wordnik.com. [Web Translations » Blog Archive » Translation by a Translator] Reference
Pop looks at me prissily. From Wordnik.com. [It’s like this, cat] Reference
Sinclair Lewis prissily declined the prize.). From Wordnik.com. [Good Books Don't Have to Be Hard] Reference
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