priggishness's Usage Examples:

certain kinds of hypersensitive introversion, isolation, and a certain priggishness.

the hero of The Merchant's War stays on Earth and reforms it, with a priggishness which wrecks the satire.

senses like the Swans or Foetus before them, but tempers that art-scum priggishness with clear roots in punk and classic rock.

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

Richard Wollheim described the book as "a compendious work marred by priggishness".

– an antique poetic conception – is reduced here to snobbishness and priggishness.

not always intentional priggishness of its characters", which he saw as constituting a poignant quality.

recalled to Connolly's biographer, Clive Fisher, that Watson hated "priggishness, pomposity and almost everything to do with public life," and he suspected.

swears like a he-man on occasion, and is an utter stranger to bigotry or priggishness of any sort.

broad-minded and interested in current events, with a keen eye for humbug and priggishness.

prejudices, her frightened fretting and childish, abject tears, her priggishness and self-assured ignorance, her sometimes blatant hypocrisy, her general.

free of him creatively; and he saw what he considered the corruption, priggishness, and double standards of a purportedly liberal country.

"Upright to the point of priggishness, he fined all who swore in his presence", according to Charles Carlton.

types, Spout pedantic commonplaces - All motions right-angled - and priggishness Is frozen upon their faces.

His priggishness and haughty attitude earn him the enmity of Maria, Olivia's sharp-witted.

It is a powerful novel, noble in sentiment, and without a shade of priggishness in its profound morality.

objected to the educational methods at school, as well as he was against priggishness and prudery of the teachers.

Synonyms:

properness; propriety; primness; correctitude;

Antonyms:

unseemliness; indecorum; incorrectness; improperness; impropriety;