They are violent, and at the same time quite raw and priggish.

The logical understanding must not be allowed to put on priggish airs.

It can mean someone who seems annoyingly earnest, or priggish, or judgmental.

There was really nothing priggish about this statement, however it may sound.

As for sexual politics, Adam in Paradise Lost is a priggish patriarch.

Perhaps it was only someone you have annoyed with your nosy priggish ways?'

The clergyman looked priggish in his efforts not to do so.

The first two lines are priggish, and the last three mere poetic balderdash.

There was something about me in those days more than a little priggish.

He even saw himself as a pantheist, but the world is rather priggish.

Of all forms of conceit, preserve me from the priggish style.

This latter idiosyncrasy would, in another, have seemed either priggish or facetiously intended.

God is something more than a priggish devotion, an intellectual formula.

To have refused would have looked priggish, she said to herself.

Do you like men to have lofty ideas, and be priggish?

Rather a priggish, supercilious smile, she thought, taking a glance at his face.