Puritanism and priggishness are a nasty combination. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Square Peg, Round Hole] Reference
That was the origin of what, at first, I took for priggishness in her. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Stories]
There are so many minor priggishness which could so easily be dropped. From Wordnik.com. [The Road to Wigan Pier] Reference
Maybe it has something to do with Old World intellectual priggishness. From Wordnik.com. [von Storch and Zorita blog on the Hockey Stick « Climate Audit] Reference
I'm not equating it with anything; I don't know what failed priggishness means. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Janke and dead, sodomized hookers? Hey, I'm just sayin'.] Reference
Are we supposed to cheer when she's at last achieved this level of priggishness?. From Wordnik.com. [Gimlet-Eyed Girl Grows Up; Preppies Poked and Prodded] Reference
You keep your eyes open and if you feel priggishness coming on just stop in time. From Wordnik.com. [The Railway Children] Reference
That's a gift that my peculiar situation has given me, a cure of my priggishness. From Wordnik.com. [ENDA the line : Part I] Reference
“Sets” are the rule, and priggishness is rampant, even in the primeval forest. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton] Reference
Rossetti, but it was lively and buoyant enough to banish all suspicion of priggishness. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
He is in many ways a successful hero, and acts his part without either insipidity or priggishness. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.] Reference
But priggishness about knowledge is not more hurtful than is the arbitrary use of it to limit action. From Wordnik.com. [The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2] Reference
This is his priggishness which, if honesty is to be complete, is inescapably part of the statement too. From Wordnik.com. [The Perceptions of James Joyce] Reference
It has been buried beneath layer after layer of doctrinaire priggishness, party squabbles, and half-baked. From Wordnik.com. [The Road to Wigan Pier] Reference
Meanwhile, Bill Whittle hasn't yet choked on his self-generated combination of smugness and priggishness. From Wordnik.com. [Fragments] Reference
He was consequential, dogmatic, and with all the self-asserting priggishness of young Oxford fresh upon him. From Wordnik.com. [She and I, Volume 1] Reference
We have wrongly tended to demonize and belittle Victorian values as just some hypocrisy and moral priggishness. From Wordnik.com. [David Shasha: Finding Jewish Feminism in a Handbook from Victorian England] Reference
She was steeped in the Bostonian culture of privacy and priggishness in a way that Alcott failed to understand. From Wordnik.com. [Louisa May Alcott] Reference
SANCHEZ: I think it's a certain amount of priggishness on the part of parents who are at one school, they're right. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 19, 2007] Reference
It would seem that many believe that in order to win we need to adopt a new liberal synthesis of priggishness and hawkery. From Wordnik.com. [Hullabaloo] Reference
In his fiction, he freed himself from conventions and traditions, from priggishness and condescension, and found room for his fantasies. From Wordnik.com. [Schwarz 2 - Criticism - Critical Contexts] Reference
There is nothing in this of priggishness or unreality. From Wordnik.com. [Religious Reality] Reference
We are terribly afraid in England of what we call priggishness. From Wordnik.com. [Joyous Gard] Reference
Mixing more with men, his priggishness would be laughed out of him. From Wordnik.com. [The Fawn Gloves] Reference
"Sets" are the rule, and priggishness is rampant, even in the primeval forest. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II] Reference
If these precautions be taken, the danger of priggishness is reduced to the minimum. From Wordnik.com. [How to Study and Teaching How to Study] Reference
The result is a pedantry, a priggishness, a solemnity about games which is simply deplorable. From Wordnik.com. [The Upton Letters] Reference
The priggishness comes in when you begin to compare yourself with others, and to draw distinctions. From Wordnik.com. [The Upton Letters] Reference
Now, as I look back, I think it was sheer priggishness to resist so human and yet so reverent an impulse. From Wordnik.com. [Quest of the Golden Girl, a Romance] Reference
No moral priggishness dried up the tenderness with which he regarded the most forlorn specimens of humanity. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Johnson and His Circle] Reference
That anecdote was regarded with undisguised amusement, and it was simply thought to be a piece of priggishness. From Wordnik.com. [Where No Fear Was] Reference
Images of Modern Evil series, with Australian women flaunting themselves to US soldiers, turned priggishness into a weapon. From Wordnik.com. [The Age News Headlines] Reference
It was good to have a brother all to oneself, who was incontestably a dear, in spite of a little priggishness and narrowness. From Wordnik.com. [Winding Paths] Reference
A man may be excused even such infamies of priggishness, but truly he ought not to go and write them down, especially to his son. From Wordnik.com. [Mental Efficiency And Other Hints to Men and Women] Reference
LearnThatWord and the Open Dictionary of English are programs by LearnThat Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit.
Questions? Feedback? We want to hear from you!
Email us
or click here for instant support.
Copyright © 2005 and after - LearnThat Foundation. Patents pending.