| 单词 | prissiness |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈprissiness ˈprissiness n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun] > affected propriety prudery1708 primness1713 priggery1743 priggism1753 prudishness1760 priggishness1768 missishness1839 missiness1857 prigdom1873 prudity1891 Comstockery1905 prighood1906 nice nellyism1933 prissiness1934 1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Prissily,..adv.—prissiness, n. 1935 N.Y. Times 29 Jan. 19/4 All the technical skill..fails to save their work ‘from a certain prissiness and cloying prettification’. 1957 Observer 15 Sept. 13/2 When it aspires to epigram, the dialogue falls into a quaint, soggy prissiness. 1995 Independent 14 Feb. 14/5 Your leading article..suggests middle-class attitudes of prissiness, prejudice and irrational fear to be at the bottom of it all. < as lemmas |
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