Adjective:

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riggish's Usage Examples:

her disapproval of the theatricals, finding her "priggish, passive, naive and hard to like".

He epitomises the view of the priggish Victorian attitude to sex and morality.

""Safari": An American film about the Mau Mau": "Surely it is neither priggish nor pompous to find something disagreeable in the idea of so horrifying.

broad-minded and interested in current events, with a keen eye for humbug and priggishness.

in investigations, to the point of being considered sanctimonious and priggish, especially by Harm.

Lydia is portrayed as a moral and intelligent woman (although "priggish" according to Shaw) and is constantly contrasted with the "ruffian" Cashel.

Saltz, writing in The Village Voice, twice took Naves to task for his "priggish, stuffy" and "self-congratulatory bitch-slapping.

– an antique poetic conception – is reduced here to snobbishness and priggishness.

with the Cambridge English Tripos", describing Noddy as an "unnaturally priggish .

prejudices, her frightened fretting and childish, abject tears, her priggishness and self-assured ignorance, her sometimes blatant hypocrisy, her general.

Mrs Grundy is a figurative name for an extremely conventional or priggish person, a personification of the tyranny of conventional propriety.

Into her life comes Homer Thrace, a priggish American in search of the glories of Ancient Greece.

Wordsworth and Coleridge set out to overturn what they considered the priggish, learned, and highly sculpted forms of 18th-century English poetry and.