Sentence example with the word 'priggish'

priggish

abusive, conscientious, derisive, formal, meticulous, perfectionistic, punctilious, sanctimonious, self-satisfied, snotty, vituperative

Definition adj. exaggeratedly proper

Last update: October 14, 2015


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Of all forms of conceit, preserve me from the priggish style.   [Please select]

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To have refused would have looked priggish, she said to herself.   [Please select]

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The minute you try to, she sounds priggish and preachy, and--impossible.   [Please select]

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With her her son, a man of twenty-six to thirty, priggish, argumentative, contrary-minded--altogether the most cub-like young Briton I have lately encountered.   [Please select]

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'That's priggish,' said Oswald; 'besides, we don't know whether we shall be so very.'   [Please select]

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They had been silly and priggish, but no more--I would have taken my oath on it.   [Please select]

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