| Lyndhurst is ideally cast in the title role, a slightly malevolent character in the background, acidic of tongue and a picture of prissiness. |
| We see our useful academic scepticism too often slip into pettiness and prissiness and yes, negativity. |
| Hoffman didn't suffer from dignity or prissiness. |
| Dog-eating, they argue, is a time-honoured tradition and China is not yet ready for Western-style prissiness about consuming such animals. |
| Keep them away from me, their prissiness is getting to my brain. |
| He retained mahua liquor and tribal sensuality, but brought in the prissiness of the urban middleclass, plus his own reticence. |
