prissy

How To Use prissy In A Sentence

• He's pleased that it's his customers who have voted for him and his team, rather than some shabby crew of critics; he's delighted that it justifies four years of very hard work; thrilled for what it says about his conviction that top flight, big-fisted food doesn't have to be served in uptight, prissy, overly formal surroundings. Best UK Restaurant 2010: The Kitchin, Edinburgh
• She plays Tracy Flick, an extreme overachiever who has set her prissy little heart on becoming president of the school council.
• Imagine how that set of policies, from this prissy pillar of property and propriety, would radicalize national taxation in any modern state.
• While America proved unready for the debut Rosset published, its mainstream chances stifled by a prissy New York Times review, France took the book to its heart and today Guinzburg is a national celebrity there.
• Children's clothes that are attractive without being prissy.
• The hero, as such, played by Edward Woodward, is a rather prissy, puritanical character, and a devout Christian.
• 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.
• I took the clown twist to another level and I created a clown movement, Tommy and the Hip Hop Clowns that grew into the evolvement of krumping which is credited with Little C, the creator, and Miss Prissy Tie Dyes (ph), just like they took the style as being my crew and it worked -- what we used to do as far as going out to parties is taking it where they went and take it to these homes where if the kids can go to parties they can do the dancing at home ... CNN Transcript Jul 2, 2005
• Lemmon acts prissy and proper while Matthau schmoozes with the ladies, all the while acting like a general lout.
• Westerners expecting the standard sleek decor and prissy presentation will be disappointed, but those who crave unaffectedly plebeian Japanese flavors will return again and again, as do multitudes of homesick Japanese.