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priggish::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian |
| Derivation | priggishness |
Examples of priggish
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Together, these books provide a social genealogy of Tom Hodgkinson's priggish tone.
From the guardian.co.uk
Memoirs of spiritual experiences can sometimes seem irritatingly superior or priggish.
From the inrich.com
There is the priggish hero whose outlandish sense of duty has tied him to a pirate gang.
From the time.com
I can envisage myself as having become a priggish headmistress.
From the independent.co.uk
Maybe you're afraid of sounding judgmental, priggish or foolish.
From the time.com
And only the most priggish today would argue that financial institutions are obliged to be fluffy.
From the economist.com
Let's not turn concerned parents into priggish Victorian censors.
From the stltoday.com
There is much that is mystical and priggish and simplistic.
From the independent.co.uk
What an insufferably priggish and ignorant teenager I was.
From the telegraph.co.uk
- Exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
- (priggishly) in a priggish manner; "this professor acts so priggishly--like a moderator with a gavel!"
- (priggishness) exaggerated and arrogant properness
- A prig (sometimes spelled prigg) is a word people use to describe someone they believe shows an inordinately zealous approach to matters of form and propriety; especially where the prig has the ability to show superior knowledge to those who do not know the protocol. ...
- Like a prig
