Example sentences for: prissy

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

  • 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).

  • 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.

  • 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."


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