prissiness

All this made me tired and discontented with my own prissiness.

The one cannot understand the other, and finds it only a laughable prissiness.

But Jill hadn't known that she had any prissiness to lose until she lost it.

By his own account, he has "an absolute horror of prissiness and preciousness."

Dr. Bates manages, despite his prissiness, to bed at least three of the women in the story.

In life and art, he seems to have swung between vulgarity and prissiness.

Irons and Malkovich bring to the picture two distinct styles of prissiness.

We have never been further apart, me in my forced hand of prissiness and him in his soup of isolation.

But I shouldn't let my irritation at Woolf's prissiness overcome what can clearly be an amusing story for the right audience.

I was informed,' she said with schoolmarm prissiness, 'that no blacks were being employed at the bridge.'

Let's reject that cowardly linguistic prissiness.

A certain prissiness.

His prissiness doesn't match Jones's bad-boy impetuousness; it's a buddy-cop marriage from the lower intestine.

YOUR danger is virtuous prissiness, and that's a nastier vice than double martinis.

He sighs and mutters under his breath, filled with despair at my prissiness and my lack of sympathy.

The Dolist slums of Nouveau Paris which had produced him were a poor culture medium for prissiness, after all.

She was, she thought, finished forever with any sort of prissiness; she had grown to cherish an ascetic, almost Martian joy in all things physical.

There was something so irritating about the primness of her expression that he wanted to shock her out of her prissiness.

Yvonne Borree as Terpsichore overcame some prissiness to capture the seductive playfulness of her role.

But despite a lot of pointedly red-blooded ogling of the indistinguishable young women who tramp through his life, there's a complacent prissiness to him.

The latter I assumed to be Donali's colleagues, from the cut of their garments and their general air of bureaucratic prissiness.

Ms. Policchio, whose general prissiness went over poorly with the Pitts, was nonetheless justified in some of her unease in their house.

Judge Alex Kozinski, in a powerful dissenting opinion, maintained that the case "trivializes" important privacy values and "rewards effete prissiness."

(The prissiness of that extra half-cent is what forever confirms my own sympathies as more Jeffersonian than Thoreauvian.)

Glaswegians -who considered themselves more passionate, more Celtic -thought Edinburgh staid and conventional to the point of prissiness.