How To Use Priggish In A Sentence
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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.
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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.
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My partner had wanted souvenirs, but somewhat priggishly, I had stopped her.
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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)
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You really do believe in the stiff-necked priggish Edward, to the point where you want to punch him.
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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.
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And to be priggish about the sunglasses that people buy is out of touch with how people live their lives.
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Fortunately, the message couched within the narrative is neither excessively moralistic nor priggish.
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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.
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But if the anti-drugs campaigners are priggish and authoritarian, the arguments of pro-drugs campaigners are often equally unappealing.
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Neil is vain, priggish and, like his wife Iona, grimly materialistic.
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He has thus refined his notion of alterity from a "priggish" one that would not acknowledge any resemblance (14) between ancient paederasty and modern homosexuality, to an alterity that now "acknowledge [s], promote [s], and support [s] a heterogeneity of queer identities, past and present
The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality
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A good many people in my own class are impatient of them, and think of them as harmless recreations; I fall back upon a few like-minded friends, with whom I can talk easily and unreservedly of such things, without being thought priggish or donnish or dilettanteish or unintelligible.
At Large
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It's the same story recently retold in The Devil Wears Prada, though Anne Hathaway is a modern woman who priggishly rejects the temptations offered by Meryl Streep, whereas Hepburn, romanced by Astaire with the help of some Cole Porter songs, happily consents to be beautiful rather than brainy.
The big picture: Paris, 1956 – Audrey Hepburn on the set of Funny Face
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Actress Frances O'Connor brings a refreshing candour to the most insufferably priggish of all Austen's heroines, Fanny Price, and Alessandro Nivola is irresistibly rakish as her potential beau.
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I answer, perhaps a little priggishly, that it is our job as a newspaper to apply scrutiny to power - and if Boris Johnson should ever attain power, he can expect much the same treatment.
Archive 2008-02-01
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Best of all, we get to see a number of interesting variations on it as she goes through a sort of magical striptease for the priest or rather the "seminarian," as he priggishly corrects anyone who calls him "Father".
DEVIL'S NIGHTMARE
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He had been very careful not to buy anything too priggish, and flattered himself to say he had done a good job with it.
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Sexual priggishness, vengeance and racism are very difficult concepts upon which to build a positice values argument, but they've managed to create the illusion that they have "moral clarity" by garbing their narrow vision in religious and patriotic terms --- and because we have failed to stand up for our universal values of liberty, justice and equality.
Hullabaloo
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Anything further removed from instinct it were hard to fancy; and one is even stirred to a certain impatience with a character so destitute of spontaneity, so passionless in justice, and so priggishly obedient to the voice of reason.
Memories and Portraits
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Since movies need conflict, they find themselves squarely in the crosshairs of one Sir Alistair Dormandy (Kenneth Branagh), a priggishly authoritarian government official, who vows to remove this scurrilous influence from the public airwaves, one way or another.
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Best of all, we get to see a number of interesting variations on it as she goes through a sort of magical striptease for the priest or rather the "seminarian," as he priggishly corrects anyone who calls him "Father".
Archive 2005-04-10
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His father's ‘prime horror’ was of prigs, and yet James does seem here to be awfully priggish, a fussy and self-obsessed old man.
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So is Kevin Depinet's set, which is so priggishly austere that you'll start snickering as soon as you walk into the theater.
The Prison of the Heart
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In any case, O'Connor's response does indeed remove her -- and any -- agency from the way in which new interpretation changes I would priggishly argue not the Constitution per se, but our understanding and thereby our and other's application of its principles to the way we organize ourselves.
Not incredibly outrageous.
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Tom, a lively and adventurous lad, lives with his priggish brother Sid and his good-hearted Aunt Polly in the quiet town of St Petersburg, Missouri.
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In 1957 when Lord Altrincham complained that she sounded like a ‘priggish schoolgirl’, he was predictably threatened with horsewhipping and the borough of Altrincham hastened to dissociate itself from so subversive an opinion.
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That said, the text is often intractable or so annoyingly assertive as to appear priggish.
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They bicker constantly, Clemen's Falstaffian appetites and uncontrollable bodily urges clashing with the priggishness and military discipline of Jimmy, a former air-force officer, and their ill-tempered dialogues are often hilarious.
Adios, Warlock
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It is an art of the body, of corpulence and skinniness, flatulence and dropsy, of comic priggishness and irrepressible lust.
Rude Britannia: British Comic Art
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I have in mind Wes Jackson, Bill McKibben, Robert Jensen (also a priggishly ignorant anti-porn crusader), Derrick Jensen (who has issues).
Shameless Self-promotion Sunday #45
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this professor acts so priggishly--like a moderator with a gavel!
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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.
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A pretty good defence mechanism is to be open - but also, I think, without being too priggish and sanctimonious, it's a kind of responsibility if you're in public life.
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Think how much better it is that the opposite: prissy, priggish public expression and sinning like mad privately.
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I consider offering the countervailing maxim ‘punctuality is the politeness of kings’, but feel it might sound priggish.
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On its simplest level, it traces two calamitous marriages: one between the sweet, idealistic Dorothea Brooke (Juliet Aubrey) and priggishly meanspirited Rev. Edward Casaubon (Patrick Malahide), the other pairing equally idealistic Dr. Tertius Lydgate (Douglas Hodge) with the wretchedly selfish Rosamond Vincy (Trevyn McDowell).
By George, We've Got It
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Leslie Joseph portrays the small-minded, priggish, self-satisfied spinster to a T.
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And I used to have my little priggish laugh at the woman who counted her chickens before they were hatched and so forth, and I was convinced that honesty was the best policy, also a little priggishly.
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This professor acts so priggishly -- like a moderator with a gavel!
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He seems to me in the line of Jane Austen's failed fathers, less ineffectual than Emma's, less priggish than Anne's.
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The irony of Kinsey's character is that he isn't given to temptation in the usual sense (except to be as uncompromising as his priggish father).
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I get the impression that Salinger has a lot of admiration for Holden, if only because Holden narrates the whole book and there's nobody else there to comment on him, and yet I find Holden to be just a narrow-minded, priggish, self-pitying little squit.
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His father's ‘prime horror’ was of prigs, and yet James does seem here to be awfully priggish, a fussy and self-obsessed old man.
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As a prodigal, Tom is forever annoying Sid, his priggish, elder half brother.
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The brilliant dare-devil from Italy despised alike the raw, limitary, reputable, priggish undergraduates and the dull, snuffling, smug-looking, fussy dons.
The Life of Sir Richard Burton
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There's no point in being priggish about its ‘low standards‘.
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Antoine is a somewhat priggish writer and English teacher whose landlady has a flaming crush on him, no matter that she once went upside his head with a hair dryer in a misplaced fury.
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The movie is splendidly arrayed visually, but transforms her prim, priggish character and makes her lusty, strong-willed and far too politically progressive for her era.
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He has thus refined his notion of alterity from a "priggish" one that would not acknowledge any resemblance (14) between ancient paederasty and modern homosexuality, to an alterity that now "acknowledge [s], promote [s], and support [s] a heterogeneity of queer identities, past and present
The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality
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So the more complex question is not why the markets had reacted so priggishly, but why now?
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'If I'm riggish, you're priggish,' retorted Polly.
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In fact it is difficult to imagine anyone more divorced from the spirit of the Jazz Age than the priggish, puritanical, non-smoking, non-drinking young Popper.
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And jeers to Macleans for priggishly mutilating a perfectly respectful and disciplined dialogue merely for the sake of suppressing the occurrence of an epithet–used in a purely analytical context–certainly no more offensive than that which sparked the controversy this thread is discussing.
When keeping it partisan goes wrong (IV) - Beyond The Commons - Macleans.ca
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Page 1 of the script describes the central character, Raymond Shaw, as young, handsome, wooden, and priggish.
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Because with their maddening obstructionism and the accurate framing of their party as the purveyors of "No!" they are hereupon revealed in their priggish guise to be retrograde and obsolete, trying desperately to incite culture war in a culture that no longer requires their participation and painting the Obama administration's efforts at economic stabilization (along with every other Democratic policy proposal) as an example of diabolical sorcery.
Steven Weber: The Pilgrim's Regress
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The notion of a shared responsibility to the community through a concern for and an acceptance of the individuals within it sounds considerably more priggish than the programmes themselves.
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What you call the pedantry and priggishness and all the rest of it is exactly what poor Breckenridge asked almost on his knees, wonderful man, to be _allowed_ to pay you for; since even if the meddlers and chatterers haven't settled anything for those who know -- though which of the elect themselves after all _does_ seem to know?
The Outcry
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Elinor has her priggish and headmistressy moments in the novel but at that point I am on her side.
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In their boasts, dissidents are lady-killers; in their writings, they are squeamish, priggish, and prudish.
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"There's nothing wrong with having a few principles", he insists, priggishly.
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Tut-tutting this sort of thing seems to me to be priggish.
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Equally irresistible, as it turns out, is the priggish Darcy, whose beauty and charm sneak up on you, just as they do on Bridget, mid-way through the film.
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But, while Hare's play captures superbly the spirit of the 80s, it leaves you unsure whether Isobel is a priggish pain or a symbol of transcendent virtue.