priggishness

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But it also inspires a pompous priggishness in its audience.

From The New Yorker • May 20, 2016

The shame-on-you-for-laughing hot take comes to us from Nathan Robinson at Current Affairs, with a headline that doesn’t even try to hide the priggishness of his position.

From Salon • Mar. 1, 2016

Because I do see it as priggishness, prudishness, squeamishness.

From Newsweek • Feb. 26, 2015

If Ryder follows his curmudgeonly mate, we'll be left with Dom Jolly's insufferable priggishness, Linford's unreconstructed attitude to women and Gillian's habitual knee-buckling.

From The Guardian • Nov. 22, 2010

“Not at all, my dear friend. It is I that must apologize to you. The whole incident was entirely due to my priggishness and lack of manners.”

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques