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The same goes for low-sugar gummy candies like Smart Sweets and Behave, which in another decade might have been presented as priggish.
A GUMMY FOR WHATEVER AILS YOURACHEL DEL VALLEAUGUST 27, 2021EATERThis judicial bent of the child is a curious one and often develops a priggish fondness for setting others morally straight.
CHILDREN'S WAYSJAMES SULLYAnd yet if we had been that low-cut lady we would certainly have given that interfering and priggish little youngster a walloping.
SEEING THINGS AT NIGHTHEYWOOD BROUNHe's a bit of a prig—in fact, he's as priggish as he well can be—but he's never done anything but run straight.
HYACINTHGEORGE A. BIRMINGHAMAmy was telling me of some priggish things that Miss Belloc had said, and I did use those very words yesterday.
AMY IN ACADIAHELEN LEAH REEDThe development of Percival from a priggish misanthrope to a man and a lover is beautifully told.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOLUME 148, JANUARY 13TH 1915VARIOUSOf one of those inmates, the rather priggish Jack Tosswill, she had made a real conquest.
WHAT TIMMY DIDMARIE ADELAIDE BELLOC LOWNDESIt was unfortunate that Radmore seemed to regard Jack Tosswill as a mere boy—a rather tiresome, priggish boy.
WHAT TIMMY DIDMARIE ADELAIDE BELLOC LOWNDESHe told me afterwards that he was conscious at the time of a horrible priggish superiority.
THE DARK FORESTHUGH WALPOLEIf I seem to have given rather a priggish picture of Arthur, it is a totally erroneous one.
MEMOIRS OF ARTHUR HAMILTON, B. A. OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGEARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSONWORDS RELATED TO PRIGGISH
- affected
- aristocratic
- artificial
- chivalrous
- civil
- confined
- courteous
- courtly
- cultivated
- distingué
- elegant
- fashionable
- formal
- graceful
- hollow
- intolerant
- la-di-da
- mannerly
- noble
- ostentatious
- polished
- polite
- pompous
- precious
- pretentious
- priggish
- prim
- prissy
- prudish
- refined
- respectable
- straitlaced
- stuffy
- stylish
- urbane
- well-behaved
- well-bred
- well-mannered
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