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
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
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
Vocabulary lists containing priggish
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