0 caring too much about behaving and dressing in a way that is considered correct and that does not shock:
The public then—as now, in my view—had more wit than prissy, bossy, censors.
Is that to be kicked aside by some prissy civilian manager in the name of corporate policy or competition, or some other commercial slogan?
I am not asking for some prissy, puritan control of programmes.
He was a bit patronising and prissy this evening.
Some of them have even been described by friends of mine in industry as pompous and "prissy" in varying degrees, and even prim and prudish.
Although that might sound a little prissy and pompous, it is true.
I give these two disparate examples to show that we must not be prissy about this.
We must not be too prissy about such things these days.