Adjective:

অত্যন্ত যথার্থ্যপ্রিয়তা,

priggish's Usage Examples:

Ornstein has carefully detailed the characteristics of Malvolio's priggishness: Those who do not enjoy Malvolio would reduce him to a conventional killjoy.

aristocratic characters in Cashel Byron's Profession as unrealistically priggish even without his later understanding that "the real world does not exist.

maturity (though the other girls in her boarding school find her somewhat priggish).

Mrs Grundy is a figurative name for an extremely conventional or priggish person, a personification of the tyranny of conventional propriety.

He epitomises the view of the priggish Victorian attitude to sex and morality.

with the Cambridge English Tripos", describing Noddy as an "unnaturally priggish .

Lydia is portrayed as a moral and intelligent woman (although "priggish" according to Shaw) and is constantly contrasted with the "ruffian" Cashel.

Saltz, writing in The Village Voice, twice took Naves to task for his "priggish, stuffy" and "self-congratulatory bitch-slapping.

If the dog sounds priggish, be not afraid.

her disapproval of the theatricals, finding her "priggish, passive, naive and hard to like".

Wordsworth and Coleridge set out to overturn what they considered the priggish, learned, and highly sculpted forms of 18th-century English poetry and.

1798 play Speed the Plough, later used to exemplify a conventional or priggish person Grundy, a chicken-like enemy in the video game Stinkoman 20X6 A.

His character, that of a “priggish,” snobbish adolescent embarrassed by his parents, and a gently domineering.

"The Crown, season 2, episode 5 review: the 'priggish' Queen comes under media attack".

Into her life comes Homer Thrace, a priggish American in search of the glories of Ancient Greece.

Donstelli (Erik Rhodes), makes a public accusation against Philippe, and the priggish head of the Purity League (Eily Malyon) exploits the incident until it.

"'Safari': An American film about the Mau Mau": "Surely it is neither priggish nor pompous to find something disagreeable in the idea of so horrifying.

in investigations, to the point of being considered sanctimonious and priggish, especially by Harm.

Nanny state: how food fascists, teetotaling do-gooders, priggish moralists, and other boneheaded bureaucrats are turning America into a.

Synonyms:

puritanical; proper; tight-laced; prudish; straight-laced; square-toed; prim; victorian; straightlaced; prissy; strait-laced; straitlaced;

Antonyms:

stay; unrefined; undress; unfastidious; improper;