prissily
- r in a prissy manner
the new teacher alienates the children by behaving prissily
- How did America's reading habits become so radically polarized, so prissily puritanical, that at best a quarter of what people read (or at least what they buy) qualifies as .
- His father makes bawdy comments about the breasts of "these Western women" while Alistair, rather prissily, feels his ears burn.
- This leaves the prissily played Hundert sadder and wiser.