priggish
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All the characters the excellent Mr. Felciano plays are sinister, selfish or generally priggish.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Frank Burns, the priggish Army doctor who was obsessed with nurse “Hot Lips” Houlihan in “MASH,” Duvall specialized in tightly wound tough guys.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2026
He aimed his deepest scorn at Nunn, whom he blamed for his downfall, denouncing him as blindly ambitious, duplicitous, timid, and priggish.
From Slate ● Jan. 23, 2025
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.
From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2022
Suddenly, she was right there before me, that busy, priggish, conceited little girl, and she was not dead either, for when people tittered appreciatively at “evanesce” my feeble heart—ridiculous vanity!—made a little leap.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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