priggish

Example Sentences

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He’s not a priggish bootstrapper but a plucky bon vivant who does his work with a smile, always “on the alert for business.”

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2022

Once criticized for a sense of rectitude so priggish it began to appear perverse, Starr course-corrected by defending Jeffrey Epstein and then Donald Trump.

From Slate • Aug. 15, 2021

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

Q. What is the main complaint among the more priggish Losers about competing in the Invitational?

From Washington Post • May 20, 2021

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