priggishness

“Not at all, my dear friend. It is I that must apologize to you. The whole incident was entirely due to my priggishness and lack of manners.”

Both advertised themselves as emblems of the sexual revolution, an escape from American priggishness and wider social intolerance.

He was still “Dutch”, to use his childhood nickname: a slim, bespectacled youth, serious to the point of priggishness.

Lampooning sexual mores, revealing racism and mocking priggishness, Oz incited fusty establishment elders in Australia and London and provoked what was, at the time, Britain’s longest and possibly most colorful obscenity trial.

But it also inspires a pompous priggishness in its audience.