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prissily

ADVERB
  1. in a prissy manner
    the new teacher alienates the children by behaving prissily

How To Use prissily In A Sentence

  • the new teacher alienates the children by behaving prissily
  • I should write about what I've seen: expensive women in summer pearls, their blonde faces tanned the shade of their husbands' Church-brand shoes; lacquered restaurants where men, even in this torpid weather, wear black tie and prissily fold their hands so they won't spill their drinks; and in the neatly gardened streets of quiet clapboard houses, rabbits nibbling by moonlight, their usual terror muted by the town's mock-innocence. New Jersey Moon
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