How To Use Prissy In A Sentence
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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
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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.
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Imagine how that set of policies, from this prissy pillar of property and propriety, would radicalize national taxation in any modern state.
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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.
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Children's clothes that are attractive without being prissy.
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The hero, as such, played by Edward Woodward, is a rather prissy, puritanical character, and a devout Christian.
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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.
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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
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Lemmon acts prissy and proper while Matthau schmoozes with the ladies, all the while acting like a general lout.
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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.
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Prissy produced the sugar-tit, given her that morning by Mammy, and the baby’s wails subsided.
Gone with the Wind
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I picked the breed, but since the poodle is a prissy-looking breed he wanted to give him a macho name -- Gustav. hahaha!
Wish I Could Be You
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She was only fifty-six and was stuck-up, snobby and prissy and disliked most everyone in the group.
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And a big part of Kilgore's problem is his "prissy" voice.
Archive 2005-11-06
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great post kyran we should focus on what unites us not what makes us different. and hey i don't mind being called a prissy bitch sometimes...my husband is canadian citizen now but he was a political refugee and he is also proud to be canadian
Canadian-Ish
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Our little chihuahua, Prissy, certainly was a big part of our family.
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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.
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He flails around at everyone but directs most of his outbursts towards Margaret who acts like a prissy school teacher.
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His performance in that film shows up the Randall version for what it really was - a prissy, frilly, silly version of a far more interesting and comic character.
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His fishbowl universe of prissy suburban breeders, casually sadistic office bosses, and zoophilic outcasts might turn [Molly] Shannon's administrative assistant a touch irritable at the midway point, but, unlike Solondz's, White's humor isn't merciless.
GreenCine Daily: Year of the Dog.
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a prissy and emotionless creature...settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery
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Prissy all the time, they were major snots when no one was around to punish them.
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Somehow, though, James and his gang – a prissy-looking lot who, to be honest, aren't going to go a long way in persuading anyone that classical music is cool – cobble together a raggle-taggle band of kids.
TV review: Sherlock and Orchestra United
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As a member of the vaunted indie band Grizzly Bear, Chris Taylor helps make prissy, prim folk-rock songs that sound as if they were concocted in a laboratory and only later softened up so as to be marked as artisan-approved.
Oddities of Sound Abound in City
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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.
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And everyone is guided, not by the oracle, but by a prissy astrologer named Farley.
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And yes, I fully expect to be called prissy again.
Balloon Juice
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Most of the time, it's good-natured ribbing of a guy who uses hand cream or gets a little prissy about his hair.
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It's true that the Lindens can always get a substantial number of influencers to salivate if they claim to be getting rid of a feature that was "gamed" -- it satisfies that prissy geeky itch to stop organic use of their inorganic machines.
Second Thoughts
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The comedy here manages to be both breezy and black, with the Korean war clearly standing in for the then-current conflict in Vietnam; Hawkeye and Trapper spend most of their time tormenting their straight-laced tent-mate, Major Frank Burns (Robert Duvall), and his prissy head-nurse girlfriend, "Hot Lips" O'Houlihan (Sally Kellerman).
M*A*S*H: No 18
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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.
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And he flatters the mother and she kind of gets prissy and he talks her into going for a ride in the sports car.
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Shepherd dedicated herself to morphing "from a 'prissy' woman who never exercised to the Guinness Book of World Records 'oldest female bodybuilder," ABC News reports.
Ernestine Shepherd, 74-Year-Old Bodybuilder, Inspires, Teaches Fitness (VIDEO)
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But explorers would not eat prissy little candy canes and peanut brittle when they could tear into a hamburger, would they?
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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.
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Think how much better it is that the opposite: prissy, priggish public expression and sinning like mad privately.
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Mistress Betty promised to send her young friends sets of silk for their embroidery (and kept her word); she presented Prissy with her enamel snuff-box, bearing an exact representation of that ugly building of St. James's; and Fiddy with her "equipage" -- scissors, tablets, and all, chased and wreathed with tiny pastorals, shepherds reclining and piping on sylvan banks, and shepherds and shepherdesses dancing on velvet lawns.
Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes
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The colours weren't girlie or prissy, but unusual and beautiful, with unexpected combinations of salmon pink, cream and peat brown, jade and raspberry, or orange and baby blue.
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Yas'm, Ah sho is, " Prissy agreed fervently.
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There was nothing prissy at all about another starter which consisted of a pile of rocket, aubergine purée, fried artichokes slices, shavings of Parmesan and basil on an agreeably chewy slice of toasted olive oil bread.
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But basically, all you need to know is she's wandering the familiar halls of Eisenhower high right now back in comfortable Indiana as I sit in some prissy old school all the way in Virginia.
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They don't want a prissy bar for freaky ‘beautiful people’ where they can sip cocktails and chat about style.
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I was a supporter of John Edwards but now I find him a prissy moaner.
Iowa Professor: Edwards Ad Is Deceptive
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As expected Bridget Fox (Miss Prissy Knickers my mental image of her) has been reselected as the LibDem PPC for Islington South & Finsbury to contest Emily Thornberry's seat.
MATCH THE PICTURES TO THE GOSSIP
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And we gentle Poms have acclaimed your control, admired your velocity, wet ourselves over the immaculate precision of your bouncers and waxed lyrical over your infinite superiority to our own prissy dobbers.
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Prissy, looking up, saw her and her mouth opened to yell.
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My secret thoughts on it were that some of these prickly, prissy dons really needed toughening up.
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Prissy burst into tears and incoherent mumblings: " Poke!
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Actually, the man does sound rather a jerk, but no more so than the prissy madam who lectures him about ‘Good Medical Practice’ while depriving him of his living for the crime of stating an unwelcome truth.
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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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I, as I said, was raised Catholic, and I was I don't know that I would use the word prissy, but I was awfully devout and careful.
Agnostic Michael Krasny Has 'Spiritual Envy'
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Though, I fear that I am becoming the woman I created for this façade; prim, proper, prissy.
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Rather than take a prissy Knights Of The Round Table approach with Camelot, 16th century pantaloons and wigs, King Arthur is based on what the movie claims is newly discovered evidence of the man upon whom the myth is based.
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A newspaper friendly to Helms -- known as the Landmark -- accused Hunt of being "prissy" and suggested that he was gay.
The 10 nastiest Senate races
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I grew to dislike the people from my background — they were rather uptight and prissy.
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The socialist idealist turns into a prissy schoolteacher heading for embittered spinsterdom; the dreamer and future novelist becomes a hack journalist; the golden boy back from World War I ends up a drunk, and so on.
Epic Theatre Travels Into Past, Present and Future
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He saw no need to write a poetry out of anachronistic myths, inkhorn lingos, and prissy poetic forms.
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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.
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Come in, Prissy!" she bawled, illustrating her summons with what might be called a beckoning in broad capitals, done with the whole arm from finger-tips to shoulder, twice or thrice.
A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life.
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I refuse to be Polly Prissypants, walking around my own home wearing a bactericidal mask, having Howard Hughes-like soups prepared in a sterile dish.
A bright orange bag on the carousel
