Usually means: Excessively proper or prim behavior.
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  1. prissily: Merriam-Webster
  2. prissily: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. prissily: Collins English Dictionary
  4. prissily: Vocabulary.com
  5. prissily: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. prissily: Wiktionary
  7. prissily: Dictionary.com
  8. prissily: Rhymezone
  9. prissily: FreeDictionary.org
  10. prissily: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. prissily: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adverb:  In a prissy manner; in a manner that is excessively prim or proper.

Similar:
primly, primpily, primpingly, prudishly, preppily, priggishly, purtily, preeningly, pricily, pudically, more...

Opposite:
unfussily, casually, informally, relaxed

Types:
primly, stiffly, formally, properly, more...

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Similar:
primly, primpily, primpingly, prudishly, preppily, priggishly, purtily, preeningly, pricily, pudically, more...

Opposite:
unfussily, casually, informally, relaxed

Types:
primly, stiffly, formally, properly, more...



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