priggish

Example Sentences

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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

It was hardly the first role that allowed him to explore fussy or priggish characters.

From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2023

Throughout the pandemic, Clapton has joined in criticism of the COVID-19 lockdown, as if governments were just 1960s priggish parents grounding kids for smoking grass.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2021

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

And the hapless boy who represented the traveler was the priggish little scholar they most cordially disliked.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare