priggish
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Frank Burns, the priggish Army doctor who was obsessed with nurse “Hot Lips” Houlihan in “MASH,” Duvall specialized in tightly wound tough guys.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2026
He aimed his deepest scorn at Nunn, whom he blamed for his downfall, denouncing him as blindly ambitious, duplicitous, timid, and priggish.
From Slate • Jan. 23, 2025
He’s so insufferably priggish that at school his name, William Orser, has by common consent been elided to the nonexistent word “Worser,” just to drive him crazy.
From New York Times • Aug. 12, 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
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
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