Long-haired and prissy and so pretty she could have played young Dejah Thoris.

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When Wiig finally breaks free, she has a ball imitating the prissy condescension that Byrne assumed for the role.

NEWYORKER: The Better Life

Members will need to be less prissy and fastidious, less prone to faint every time things get rough or go wrong.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

You ask me, Nikki was way too prissy to kill anyone.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

You are in a minority here in America and, I imagine, everywhere else where people do not have the economic mentality of a prissy, doddering rentier.

ECONOMIST: Letters

But it is to confront a reality that sports is still prissy about: that games are entertainment, and entertainment is what the networks pay top dollar for.

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That sounds too much like Mary Pickford, that prissy bitch.

ECONOMIST: Early film

Other famous people who hail from Augusta include actress Thelma "Butterfly" McQueen, who played Prissy in "Gone With the Wind, " actor Laurence Fishburne, soprano Jessye Norman and Frank Yerby, the famous poet and author.

CNN: Augusta beyond the golf club

It's true that Fleming pokes fun at her rather prissy probity -- refusing to exceed the speed limit during a car chase, for instance -- but Nancy emerges with her virtue intact, as she always has.

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Let's not be prissy.

WSJ: Jason Gay: Curse of the Replacements

If New York et al. succeed in their war against trans fats, and as government becomes even more involved in health care, prissy New York-style food police will ramp up their efforts to mandate how we live and how we eat in the name of containing health care costs and saving us from ourselves.

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