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 • Jun. 1, 2015
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
He is a blend of genuine power and native priggery, and his faults are the more annoying because of the virtues they obscure and spoil.
From My Contemporaries In Fiction by Murray, David Christie
It was a most false charge, for the boys were enthusiasts, and enthusiasm is a form of self-forgetfulness as priggery is a form of self-consciousness.
From The School and the World by Gollancz, Victor
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