Sentence examples for the prissy from inspiring English sources

(1925), about the prissy son of a manly riverboat captain.

In "Pygmalion," he has replaced those tics with the prissy concerns of a schoolmaster.

Many of his most popular performances were as child-men rampaging through the prissy adult world.

The prissy Gilderoy is at first surprised and intrigued by this giallo world.

She was not to be associated with the prissy, the prudish, the easily shocked.

When Wiig finally breaks free, she has a ball imitating the prissy condescension that Byrne assumed for the role.

The specter of the prissy hall monitor is, in part, the legacy of the great female reformers of Victorian America.

"Anthony was the opposite of the prissy, hysterical director," said Peter Gelb, general manager of the Metropolitan Opera.

I'm proud of my friends in that part of Long Island; they're not the prissy quiet girls.

I cheered the prissy, manicured Hopalong Cassidy my Italian mother called "Hopalong Che Si Dice," and his folksier, shambling counterpart, Roy Rogers.

In "Cats and Dogs," the prissy kitties fling ninja stars at their jowly canine foes while purring oaths of world domination.