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.

  • Miramax embarrassed prissy parent company Disney by making Dogma , directed by Kevin Smith ( Clerks , Chasing Amy ). Everyone involved apologized meekly.

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

  • Safire's prissy and presumptuous subjectivity is exemplified by the experts in the public relations department of Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.

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


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