Example sentences for: prissy

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

  • Years ago, in college, Jack impulsively married smart but prissy Judy (Miranda Richardson), unaware that by doing so, he was entering a stifling ivory tower.

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

  • In movies like The Lost World , dinosaurs are not just predators but avengers, nibbling a prissy little rich girl here, chomping an environmentally insensitive CEO there.

  • But they manage to do so, in the main, without seeming precious or prissy about it.

  • I can't be sure what Everett's languid, bare-chested Oberon is up to--posing for a Calvin Klein ad, maybe--and his relationship to Tucci's jaded, aging frat-boy Puck is that of a prissy gamekeeper to a wayward Alvin the Chipmunk.


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