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
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
The corporate culture that it reflects and embodies is, above all, sanctimoniousness, nostalgic, and priggish.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 19, 2019
Galahad, a priggish, mute little boy, was playing some private game with his dolls—to which he remained attached long after most boys would have taken to soldiers.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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