Word "PRISSY" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
exaggeratedly proper
Synonyms:
priggish, prim, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian

Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
excessively fastidious and easily disgusted
Synonyms:
dainty, nice, overnice, squeamish

Crossword Clues for PRISSY

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Overly proper Eugene Sheffer 22 Apr 2024
Is the South to nose about being so prim? (6)
Strait-laced and fussy
Fussy and prim (6)
Strait-laced and fussy (6)
Persnickety Commuter 30 Dec 2023
Goody-goody Puzzler Backwords 22 Dec 2023
Prim Universal 23 Sep 2023
Overly proper Eugene Sheffer 09 Jun 2023
Fussily respectable Wall Street Journal 28 Sep 2022
Overly proper Eugene Sheffer 11 Jan 2022
To snoop around is beginning to seem fussy
Overly proper Universal 30 Apr 2021
Fussily respectable The Times Concise 29 Jan 2021
Overly proper Wall Street Journal 27 Aug 2020
Maybe a little too proper Family Time 06 Oct 2019
Old-maidish USA Today 23 Sep 2019
Beyond prim and proper New York Times 30 Jun 2019
Beyond prim and proper
Old-maidish
Prim and proper USA Today 24 Dec 2018
More than proper LA Times Daily 14 Oct 2018
More than proper The Washington Post 14 Oct 2018
Overly proper LA Times Daily 25 Jul 2018
Overly proper The Washington Post 25 Jul 2018
Excessively proper Eugene Sheffer 19 Mar 2018
Overly proper
More than proper
Prim and proper
Popular ideas, say, abandoned by centrists in particular
Overly proper Newsday 10 Sep 2017
Affectedly prim Universal 23 Nov 2016
Beyond proper USA Today 28 Sep 2015
Affectedly proper Wall Street Journal 07 Aug 2015
Spy's oddly retaining bits of Russian intelligence, being prudish
Oh-so-prim Premier Sunday 24 May 2015
Overly proper Thomas Joseph 02 May 2015
Puritanical USA Today 10 Apr 2015
Public relations is sadly empty and formal
Puritanical
Oh-so-prim
Beyond proper
Affectedly proper
Scarlett O'Hara's maid
Excessively prim and proper
Like a stereotypical schoolmarm
Proper to a fault
Scarlett's maid
Overly proper
Scarlett's maid
Beyond proper
Proper to a fault
Too punctilious
Proper to a fault
Puritanical
Proper and then some
Proper and then some
Victorian
Overly prim and proper
Over-refined
Straight-laced and then some
Victorian
Like a schoolmarm
Straitlaced and then some
Priggish
Excessively proper
Very proper
Straitlaced and then some
Like a nice nelly
Like a nice Nelly
Finicky
Scarlett's maid
Overpunctilious
Excessively prim and proper
Affectedly prim
Finicky
Victorian
Overrefined
Too, too proper
Very prim or precise
Very prim and precise
Affectedly nice
Like a fussbudget
Affectedly proper
Strait-laced
Sissified
Overly precise
Nice-nellyish
Prudish
Nice-nelly
Overproper.
Like an old maid.
Finicky.
Fussy.
Nice-nice.
Too, too punctilious
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