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Example sentences for: prissy

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