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
Despite the wonderful freedom of living in a less priggish society, there is a cost to abandoning the electric-fence thrill of taboos, the spark of naughtiness.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 16, 2019
This priggish sleight of hand is Barr’s wheelhouse.
From Slate ● May 2, 2019
Forgetting that he’d ever been way behind the fashion curve, he was appalled, in some priggish, nouveau riche kind of way, that certain passengers appeared in the dining room in slacks and sneakers.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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