When I called my earlier attitude "priggish," what. From Wordnik.com. ['That Obscure Object of Historical Desire'] Reference
Anybody that looks kind of priggish seems to be fair game. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 8, 2003] Reference
Nonetheless I want to ask how one knows when one is being "priggish" about one's alterity?. From Wordnik.com. [The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality] Reference
Somewhat "priggish" most of them might be; but, on the whole, they were far more interesting than mere idle men of pleasure. From Wordnik.com. [The Caxtons — Complete] Reference
Perigourdin gentleman and the priggish little Clerk of King. From Wordnik.com. [Roundabout Papers] Reference
The highborn Roman thought them crude, and they thought him priggish. From Wordnik.com. [Hadrian's Wall.html]
The logical understanding must not be allowed to put on priggish airs. From Wordnik.com. [Humanly Speaking] Reference
"Leave it to Gabe to fall for a priggish little schoolmarm like that.". From Wordnik.com. [Gabriel's Lady]
Longstreet looked hard and dusty, and more than that: priggish, self-righteous. From Wordnik.com. [The Empress File]
Of course they were from Boston, and equally of course they were rather priggish. From Wordnik.com. [A Man of Samples Something about the men he met "On the Road"] Reference
It's the blandly didactic product of priggish, literal, two-dimensional thinking. From Wordnik.com. [Snakes are evil, but save your venom for the self-appointed language police] Reference
He was stiff, priggish, precise, when he addressed any gentleman with light hair and an. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference
As Gerard crumpled the paper in his fist, the Admiral's priggish sneer rose before him. From Wordnik.com. [Thief Of Hearts]
They would say she was mean and priggish, for she might have told Berta as easily as not. From Wordnik.com. [Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls] Reference
Mr. Claussen, however, is right to warn us from writing off Adorno as a priggish mandarin. From Wordnik.com. [Capitalism and Its Malcontent] Reference
Paul's got issues of his own, too, including a crush on a priggish socialite (Katie Holmes). From Wordnik.com. [John Farr: Where Are All The Classy, Smart Female Stars Today? (Thank God - I Found One)] Reference
"It'll be great goin 'doon the pit," he said, again feeling that he was going to be priggish. From Wordnik.com. [The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner] Reference
Because, as he said, the Tommies are getting just as priggish and half-balled and narrow-gutted. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Chatterley's Lover] Reference
Just like I called him over weaning and priggish a minute ago, now I'm going to call him brilliant. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 14, 2009] Reference
Of the revolutionaries, though, only Eliot Levey's priggish, nose-wrinkling Robespierre wears a wig. From Wordnik.com. [Two German Revolutionary Plays Restaged] Reference
LAMB: Now you say that today's politicians are blow-dried, priggish, goody-two-shoes suburban bores. From Wordnik.com. [You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You: Politics in the Clinton Years] Reference
They are not technocrats at all, but either priggish moralists or cowardly panderers to mob prejudice. From Wordnik.com. [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference
However, the clients, stuck in the priggish 1950s, are disappointed because the image isn't 'wholesome.'. From Wordnik.com. [Janet Turley: Sex, Violence and Identity: Mad Men Season 4 Premier] Reference
Especially when confronted by the priggish, lachrymose, moral equivalence offered by enablers of Arab tyranny. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Geary played four parts: himself, his inattentive defense attorney, the priggish prosecutor and the stern judge. From Wordnik.com. [Soaps' Scab Scripts: Seinfelds They Ain't] Reference
You drink confusion to the priggish provincial faddist whose State we have just passed, and continue your dinner. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference
Somewhere along the line shame picked up a priggish, finger-wagging connotation that has lingered in our moral attics. From Wordnik.com. [The Return Of Shame] Reference
SANCHEZ: Well, you know, I can't help but accuse Gregg of being extremely priggish and over weaning when he says that. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 14, 2009] Reference
However clever you try to make your supercilious, morally superior, priggish little comments we just laugh at you now. From Wordnik.com. [Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...] Reference
He remembered her pretty face and priggish speeches with a sudden secret vividness which is all the bitterness of death. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Father Brown] Reference
You don't belong to our set, and therefore know very little about Ada's conceit and -- yes, I shall say it -- priggish ways. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Judith The Story of a Loving Life] Reference
They ` re self-dramatizing, rather priggish, on their own -- on their own version of Africa, doing whatever they ` re doing. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town] Reference
Now, as it happened, Valentine Landry, driving away in a priggish state of mind, was suddenly overwhelmed by miserable remorse. From Wordnik.com. [The Gay Cockade] Reference
These two have as yet appeared only in the background, and may have assumed a half-priggish air in opposition and contrast to Mae. From Wordnik.com. [Mae Madden] Reference
Julia blinked in simple astonishment, aware that she was faintly scandalized, and annoyed at herself for such a priggish reaction. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
A federal court ruled that the fine was arbitrary and capricious (they left out petty and priggish) and CBS was a half a mil richer. From Wordnik.com. [Sam Greenfield: Keeping Abreast of Decency] Reference
You know how priggish those Muslims can be, keeping their women all swathed in voluminous garments that hide the fact that they are women. From Wordnik.com. [You at Columbia U., Remember the Concept of Free Speech and Mind Your Manners] Reference
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