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How to use prissy in a sentence

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She plays Tracy Flick, an extreme overachiever who has set her prissy little heart on becoming president of the school council.
And he flatters the mother and she kind of gets prissy and he talks her into going for a ride in the sports car.
Most of the time, it's good-natured ribbing of a guy who uses hand cream or gets a little prissy about his hair.
Imagine how that set of policies, from this prissy pillar of property and propriety, would radicalize national taxation in any modern state.
Good enough for me, I dearly hope that this school doesn't end up to be a prissy school in which everyone wears khakis and blouses all the time.
It's always a joy to watch prissy corporate mail filters twitch their lace curtains and bounce back NTK when they spot a phrase they don't like.
He's a prissy fellow, and he takes about 10 or 15 seconds just to peck a hole that is large enough to pull one of the kernels through.
My secret thoughts on it were that some of these prickly, prissy dons really needed toughening up.
She was only fifty-six and was stuck-up, snobby and prissy and disliked most everyone in the group.
Lemmon acts prissy and proper while Matthau schmoozes with the ladies, all the while acting like a general lout.
But explorers would not eat prissy little candy canes and peanut brittle when they could tear into a hamburger, would they?
He saw no need to write a poetry out of anachronistic myths, inkhorn lingos, and prissy poetic forms.
He flails around at everyone but directs most of his outbursts towards Margaret who acts like a prissy school teacher.
And everyone is guided, not by the oracle, but by a prissy astrologer named Farley.
She's a brave choice for a lead, a brittle, almost prissy character who reacts to her situation with irritation and denial more than anything else.
I remember when I was in high school, and I would walk through the halls, over hearing prissy girls gabber about wondering what their boyfriends where doing.
It's awesome to see a prissy little daddy's girl down something she hates.
The look was schoolmarm prissy, but sexy and was every grown up boy's fantasy of a saucy school mistress or strict female dominant leader like Margaret Thatcher.
Kath, a sex-crazed single mother, comes under the scrutiny of her prissy daughter, Kim, when the younger woman leaves her husband and moves back in with Mum.
If the artist's approach often tends to such simplistic judgements, it also degenerates into prissy political correctness and schoolmarmy cluck clucking.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Would these boys let her keep them in order as Bertie was kept by prissy and Milly?
Heaven forfend that comments are going to become even more bland as a result of the Premier League going all prissy about an accepted practice.
I'll not deny that prissy and I were wondering at your absence.
For look you, prissy, an' it were not true, it would be a lie.
It had77 never occurred to them as possible to keep anything from prissy.
YouTube hit and his prissy style made him a laughing stock, and it's much worse for a politician to be laughed at than feared.
Among them there's her over-opinionated Bubby Dora, a comically prissy fashion designer and an approvalseeking clown who livens up a seance.
But when prissy and pompous Victor Melling puts Hart through beauty camp, the transformation is a sight for sore eyes and something of an eye-opener for fellow agent Matthews.
My Aunt Prissy will be very happy if you and the minister will come to her quilting bee to-morrow afternoon and stay to tea.
Prissy and posh, Renee comes over as Miss Potty in a Victorian heritage picture.
Prissy Hickerson, a Texarkana Republican and former Arkansas Highway commissioner, was on hand for the dedication.
She always calls Scilla Prissy, though she knows how she dislikes it.
And oh, Marilla, Jane Andrews told me that Minnie MacPherson told her that she heard Prissy Andrews tell Sara Gillis that I had a very pretty nose.
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