Example sentences for: prissy

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

  • 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."

  • 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.

  • 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.

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


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