p pa pb pc pd pe pf pg ph pi pk pl pm pn po pp pr ps pt pu pv pw px py

Перевод: prissy speek prissy


[прилагательное]
ханжеский


Тезаурус:

  1. I suppose if Rupert had not been a bear he might have been considered prissy, like Noddy.
  2. But then she was different from the vast majority of girls at Templeton's, being of a more refined, though certainly not prissy, nature.
  3. Elizabeth of York - the eldest - was too prissy, she had decided, Cecily was a busybody, and Bridget, who was four, was prone to hiccups in the middle of the night!
  4. She had surely not learnt them at her boarding-school, whose high-minded staff and prissy pupils she had described to him, and whose old-fashioned upper-classy slang she sometimes employed.
  5. Or a prissy tech pedant, who should have been one of my father's scribes."
  6. Had General Francis not had his two sticks propped against his chair as a tangible reminder of his condition, and had he not, as had now been explained to me, been making this social call to thank me for nursing his son after paying a second professional visit himself to Bernard Remington-Hart, his appearance and that Rolls outside would have frozen Margaret into a prissy caricature of her normal self.
  7. She gave me a prissy look.
  8. To argue would be prissy, he decided.
  9. For such special knowledge holds the potential for an ethnographic interpretation of police culture which incorporates aspects of "practical mastery" (Bourdieu 1977) and to enlarge on what Kuper (1973: 238) has somewhat critically dismissed as "the prissy sterility of much of the methodological or reformist sociology".
  10. It's a shame that the word "refined" has acquired prissy connotations because both the shop and the stock of London's newest lingerie outlet is refined in the best possible sense of the word.
  11. But she thanked the Lord that Reverend Morey hadn't become a Governor sooner, for then everyone would have known about Angel, and James's plump and prissy wife might have discovered her husband had fathered a bastard.
  12. Stepan Verkhovensky is prissy, frenchified, very feminine though not at all homosexual.
  13. Mildred Gordon MP, formerly a teacher, said in her speech that "far too often young children are presented, in schoolbooks and in pictures in school with the vision of the normal, acceptable, happy family as comprising a married, white middle-class man and woman, with two prissy children who are clean, neat and tidy, and yet the majority of children find that this does not relate to their households."

LMBomber - программа для запоминания иностранных слов

Copyright © Perevod-Translate.ru