priggish
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Woolf, like several other characters in “Run,” is based on a real person; Cocker-Norris, whom Oyelowo renders with an amusingly priggish persnickety-ness, is not.
From Washington Post • Sep. 13, 2022
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
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
Mantell was a lanky assemblage of shortcomings–he was vain, self-absorbed, priggish, neglectful of his family–but never was there a more devoted amateur paleontologist.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing priggish
Unit 3: Compelling Evidence
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