| Keep them away from me, their prissiness is getting to my brain. |
| Lyndhurst is ideally cast in the title role, a slightly malevolent character in the background, acidic of tongue and a picture of prissiness. |
| The moral tragedy of the whole GM debacle was the fact that European prissiness about genetic modification has affected its adoption in Africa. |
| He retained mahua liquor and tribal sensuality, but brought in the prissiness of the urban middleclass, plus his own reticence. |
| This and adjacent forms of speech do not, however, go with any narrow prissiness. |
| We see our useful academic scepticism too often slip into pettiness and prissiness and yes, negativity. |
