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Meanings of priggishness in English

Catalan
pedantisme
Spanish
gazmoñada

Exaggerated and arrogant properness.

pedantisme
Usage of priggishness in English
1
It was not priggishness, but submissive affection, and she read it aright.
Fletcher of Madeley
2
Mixing more with men, his priggishness would be laughed out of him.
Malvina of Brittany
3
He fled from priggishness and the terror of such sublimity alike to Prothero.
The Research Magnificent
4
Prim and Percy could argue for hours if given the right incentive, like priggishness.
Imprudence
5
If these precautions be taken, the danger of priggishness is reduced to the minimum.
How to Study and Teaching How to Study
6
His exaltation is self-centred, is priggishness, his fall is unrestrained by any exterior obligation.
God, the Invisible King
7
It was not a rebuke for priggishness; it was the unpresentable statement of a fact.
Simon the Jester
8
There is nothing in this of priggishness or unreality.
Religious Reality: A Book for Men
9
Nor would he have sentenced them with this extraordinary mixture of priggishness and pious pity:
The Man Shakespeare and His Tragic Life Story
10
And this novel which begins with passion ends with something not far removed from priggishness.
The Eve of the French Revolution
11
The result is a pedantry, a priggishness, a solemnity about games which is simply deplorable.
The Upton Letters
12
The priggishness comes in when you begin to compare yourself with others, and to draw distinctions.
The Upton Letters
13
But here, such priggishness seemed redundant, even ludicrous.
Imajica: Complete Edition
14
There may be specimens there, for priggishness is just like painter's colic or any other trade-disease.
Memories and Studies
15
There is often a certain priggishness and pride in things foreign in saying, 'I am a Christian.'
The Foundations of Japan / Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 M...
16
At this time I was a mixture of childishness and priggishness, of curious knowledge and dense ignorance.
Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments
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