prissyadjective
uk/ˈprɪs.i/us/ˈprɪs.i/disapprovingcaring too much about behaving and dressing in a way that is considered correct and that does not shock:
My sister told me that my prissy attitude annoys her.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Narrow-minded
- be set in your ways idiom
- be wearing blinders idiom
- be wearing blinkers idiom
- blinker
- blinkered
- hidebound
- insular
- intolerance
- intolerant
- myopic
- narrow-minded
- parochial
- petty
- prim
- set
- short-sighted
- strait-laced
- unreconstructed
- unthinking
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prissily
adverb uk/ˈprɪs.əl.i/us/ˈprɪs.əl.i/