Sentence examples for a prissy from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "a prissy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is overly concerned with being proper or neat, often in a way that is perceived as annoying or excessive.
Example: "She always acts so prissy about the dress code, insisting that everyone wear formal attire to the office."
Alternatives: "a fussy" or "a prim".

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She's not a prissy dog".

She's not a prissy fashion girl at all".

But don't expect a prissy, straight-laced milieu.

Beale's Timon was a prissy bundle of sexless congeniality.

Mr. Lloyd, a prissy, obsessively neat former postal employee, tries to rid Manhattan of litter.

And the Jonathan Adler Channing desk was "perfect for a prissy 13-year-old girl's room," he said.

"Ooh," he says, affecting the voice of a prissy, self-obsessed thespian.

Lionel, a prissy English art connoisseur (Ian McDiarmid), says it takes a "blink".

In the third person, she came off as a prissy automaton of perfection.

Britten and Pears, a prissy pair, call out of Kahane some of his most vivacious musical ideas.

You might mistake him for a prissy bank manager, but a plaque identifies him as Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.

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