Carrie Underwood

So many people always try to help me carry my luggage and help me do things I can do myself. If I can do it myself, I'm going to do it myself. I'm not going to let other people do it for me, and I think that's a big part of where I came from. I'm not a real prissy girl.

American Musician

Debbie Gibson

I don't know if people feel this way, but I think by nature that when you start off as a young pop singer, they assume that you're a bit pampered, prissy, and precious, or that you live in a bubble and not in the real world. For me that's not the case.

Jesmyn Ward

I hope that I never have to work in a place that sells large quantities of jeans ever again. Jeans are rough! It used to kill my hands. I know that sounds prissy - I'm not prissy at all. But it did; it killed my hands. It was awful.

American Novelist

Lionel Shriver

By stereotyping my work's audience as self-involved and prissy, women-only packaging also insults my readers, who could all testify that trussing up my novels as sweet, girly, and soft is like stuffing a Rottweiler in a dress.

American Journalist

Jaime Pressly

I do think being a prissy tomboy helps me in raising a son in general. I wrestle with him, play ball, play in the sandbox with him. As a mom, you get bruises, scrapes on your knee.

American Dancer

Richard P. Feynman

Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime, we have to be very prissy about how we tell computers to do things.

American Physicist

Christine and the Queens

Christine was me wanting to break free. I was tired of being prissy and shrinking and apologising all of the time, so I created a character that could be daring for me.

French Musician

Natalie Jeremijenko

The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.

Australian Artist

Debby Ryan

More than anything, acting helped me discover who I'm not. I've learned that I'm a girly girl, but not a prissy girl.

American Actress

Catherine Deneuve

I was never a dangerous woman. I'm not the prissy blonde woman that could take your husband away.

French Actress

Prissy often carries a negative tone, suggesting annoyance or irritation with someone's behavior.

Negative Nuance

Use 'prissy' to describe someone acting with an air of superiority because of prim or precise behavior.

Superior Attitude

Using 'prissy' implies a person's overly formal behavior doesn't match the informal setting.

Formality Mismatch

Use 'prissy' for someone who is overly cautious or avoids mess and untidiness.

Dislike of Messiness

'Prissy' can describe picky eating habits due to a dislike of certain textures or flavors.

Selective Eating

Prissy individuals might be seen as excessively methodical or obsessed with order.

Obsessive Orderliness

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