Example sentences for: prissy

How can you use “prissy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The approved view until recently was that Reno had made herself irrelevant--a Washington nonplayer--by being so intractable and prissy.

  • Sales of tobacco pipes are booming; the pipe industry hopes to capitalize on--and supplant--cigar chic, but the Wall Street Journal says skeptics still consider pipes "tweedy and prissy."

  • The premise: Two '90s kids are transported into a Father Knows Best -type sitcom and shake up its prissy black-and-white world.

  • Capital Gang sters Al Hunt and Robert Novak signal an end to their rude ways this week with some of the most polite behavior ever witnessed on a political talk show (outside of the prissy Washington Week , of course).

  • And even Microsoft would project more power and mystery if it went by "M" rather than the prissy, feminine "MS."


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