priggish

How To Use priggish In A Sentence

• He was, in fact, a serious, somewhat priggish young man, though he often gave signs of light-heartedness both as a boy and in later life.
• There's a lot of real pain and hardship in this story, but whenever the tale gets too heavy, Townsend busts out one of Adrian's characteristic, tight-assed priggish observations about the world around him and just floors me.
• My partner had wanted souvenirs, but somewhat priggishly, I had stopped her.
• My suspicion about the long-lived and very tiresome bacon craze is that the rise of vegetarianism and veganism, dietary choices often (but by no means always) promoted by the smug and priggish, has lent meat-eating a kind of roguish cachet, like letting your child go to play-date without his elbow pads. Stefan Beck: Meatopia: Meat-Up on Governors Island (PHOTOS)
• You really do believe in the stiff-necked priggish Edward, to the point where you want to punch him.
• But Wilkinson thinks we're just being priggish and unbiblical; God actually has blessings stacked up for us in heaven that tragically go ungiven if we fail to ask for them.
• And to be priggish about the sunglasses that people buy is out of touch with how people live their lives.
• Fortunately, the message couched within the narrative is neither excessively moralistic nor priggish.
• The first thing she says about him is that he is ‘extremely down to earth’, which certainly contrasts with Fiennes, whose public persona exists somewhere between enigmatic and priggish.
• But if the anti-drugs campaigners are priggish and authoritarian, the arguments of pro-drugs campaigners are often equally unappealing.