On this page you'll find 11 example sentences with Prissy. You'll also see the meaning, synonyms such as nice or proper and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Prissy in a sentence
Prissy meaning
- Prim and fussy; too precise; overparticular.
- Lacking masculine vigor; sissified; effeminate.
- Well-mannered; well-behaved.
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Mr. Phillips goes up to see Prissy Andrews nearly every evening. He says it is to help her with her lessons.
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In 1995, actor Butterfly McQueen, who’d played the slave Prissy in “Gone with the Wind,” died in Augusta, Georgia, at age 84.
Ivan’s prissy mask of respectability is soon demolished by his wife’s obsession with the White Sheik.
Two pets he dearly loved, Prissy and Buddy, and two grand fur babies, Baily and Remington.
On the right is an earlier interpretation of Prissy in Kevin Sullivan's 1985 film adaptation, in which the character isn't fleshed out as much.
Prissy then finds Rhett, and Scarlett begs him to take herself, Wade, Melanie, Beau, and Prissy to Tara.
Scarlett tells Prissy to go find Rhett, but Prissy is afraid to "go runnin' roun' in de dahk".
Thus, for example, we can see how “gender” went from a boring word that was a prissy way of saying “sex” to a leftist battleground, in a very short period of time.
He very quickly tried to normalise the situation and just told me I had to get with it and not be such a prissy and he didn’t have time to worry about my delicate feelings.
When she takes the stand in court, she taunts the judge and barristers as if she were playing Liza Doolittle in a community-theater production of her earthiness achieves the same level of dullness as Edith’s prissy sanctimony.
The never-Trumpers have done nothing more than present themselves as a bunch of prissy, hoity-toity scolds who have nothing of value to say on the matter and are simply ignored and the never-trumpers can’t seem to figure that out.
Common combinations with prissy
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- prissy to 2×
- prissy in 2×
- prissy and 2×
- of prissy 2×
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