priggish

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

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.

Fordham University, the Jesuit institution in New York, claims to have blessed the team with its name, thanks to some priggish divines at the school.

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.

He’s not a priggish bootstrapper but a plucky bon vivant who does his work with a smile, always “on the alert for business.”