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
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.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2024
It was hardly the first role that allowed him to explore fussy or priggish characters.
From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2023
In chapter 36, Lucy arrives at the home of a priggish parson, whose wife is desperately ill with typhoid.
From Washington Post • May 26, 2020
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.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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