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Adjective prissy has 2 senses
- priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian - exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
Antonym: improper (indirect, via proper)
- dainty, nice, overnice, prissy, squeamish - excessively fastidious and easily disgusted; "too nice about his food to take to camp cooking"; "so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow"
Antonym: unfastidious (indirect, via fastidious)
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