priggish

Example Sentences

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It was hardly the first role that allowed him to explore fussy or priggish characters.

From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2023

Once criticized for a sense of rectitude so priggish it began to appear perverse, Starr course-corrected by defending Jeffrey Epstein and then Donald Trump.

From Slate • Aug. 15, 2021

The corporate culture that it reflects and embodies is, above all, sanctimoniousness, nostalgic, and priggish.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 19, 2019

For all this unpleasantness, Cromwell never seems to have been guilty of the twin sins against modern liberal etiquette of being either priggish or a traditionalist.

From Washington Post • Dec. 14, 2018

And the hapless boy who represented the traveler was the priggish little scholar they most cordially disliked.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare