prissily
adverb
disapprovinguk /ˈprɪs.əl.i/ us /ˈprɪs.əl.i/
in a way that shows too much care about behaving or dressing correctly: 拘谨地;一丝不苟地;刻板地
It was a town of large houses with prissily mown lawns.那个小镇上都是大房子，草坪修剪得非常漂亮。
Her tailored suits are always prissily neat.她的定制西装总是非常整洁。
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prissy
The play was prissily overdramatic.
The character he plays is the prissily secretive head of counterintelligence.
She waited prissily on the sidelines and pretending not to be impressed.
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be wearing blindersidiom
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blinker
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closed-minded
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narrow-mindedly
narrow-mindedness
prissy
provinciality
provincially
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prudish
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