priggishness

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synonyms for priggishness

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

How to use priggishness in a sentence

  • 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.

    The Making of a Prig | Evelyn Sharp
  • If you had been a man no one would have detected your priggishness at all; at its worst it would have been called personality.

    The Making of a Prig | Evelyn Sharp
  • Avoid priggishness, which is detestable mental dry-rot; and flee from cant, the convenient domino of hypocrisy.

    A Speckled Bird | Augusta J. Evans Wilson
  • Little by little she arrived at the conclusion that refinement did not mean priggishness and that vulgarity was not humor.

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