Etymology
Origin of priggery
Example Sentences
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In practice, this lofted him into the highest ranks of priggery and fuss.
From The New Yorker
They are commended by a certain dapper shrewdness of observation and an almost witty priggery, not by any real beauty or deep feeling.
From Project Gutenberg
Principle, priggery, call it what you will.
From The Guardian
The face shows the same old clutter of confusions: arrogance, snobbery, priggery, pushiness, stinginess, grossness, rampant infantilism.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of course, we should be broadminded; and priggery ought to have no place in our attitude toward the stage.
From Time Magazine Archive
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