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priggish

[ prig-ish ]

adjective

  1. fussy about trivialities or propriety, especially in a self-righteous or irritating manner:

    At the beginning of the book, Eustace is an unpleasant, unlikable, and priggish character.

    He never softened his message to please genteel tastes or priggish scruples.



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Isabel, unmarried, priggish and devoted to her housekeeping routine, lives alone in her family’s home, ostensibly keeping it safe for the brother who inherited it.

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It was hardly the first role that allowed him to explore fussy or priggish characters.

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Forgetting that he’d ever been way behind the fashion curve, he was appalled, in some priggish, nouveau riche kind of way, that certain passengers appeared in the dining room in slacks and sneakers.

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Fordham University, the Jesuit institution in New York, claims to have blessed the team with its name, thanks to some priggish divines at the school.

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He’s so insufferably priggish that at school his name, William Orser, has by common consent been elided to the nonexistent word “Worser,†just to drive him crazy.

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