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priggishness

noun as in prudishness

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I know that even I myself have occasionally, and by people who didn't know me of course, been charged with priggishness.

She wondered vaguely whether there was a single aspiration left that did not lead to the paths of priggishness.

If you had been a man no one would have detected your priggishness at all; at its worst it would have been called personality.

Avoid priggishness, which is detestable mental dry-rot; and flee from cant, the convenient domino of hypocrisy.

Little by little she arrived at the conclusion that refinement did not mean priggishness and that vulgarity was not humor.

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On this page you'll find 11 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to priggishness, such as: pretentiousness, prudery, puritanism, and snobbery.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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