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Examples for "primness"
Examples for "primness"
1
In the male that same fussiness develops, and a certain primness, too.
2
Then she said with that forced precision, a sort of conscious primness:
3
His primness, if that is the right word, never altogether deserted him.
4
Fanny recoiled at the idea with a primness that did credit to Winnebago.
5
With a certain old-fashioned primness, they step sedately through the paths of childhood.
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It was not priggishness, but submissive affection, and she read it aright.
2
Mixing more with men, his priggishness would be laughed out of him.
3
He fled from priggishness and the terror of such sublimity alike to Prothero.
4
Prim and Percy could argue for hours if given the right incentive, like priggishness.
5
If these precautions be taken, the danger of priggishness is reduced to the minimum.
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His exaltation is self-centred, is priggishness, his fall is unrestrained by any exterior obligation.
7
It was not a rebuke for priggishness; it was the unpresentable statement of a fact.
8
There is nothing in this of priggishness or unreality.
9
Nor would he have sentenced them with this extraordinary mixture of priggishness and pious pity:
10
And this novel which begins with passion ends with something not far removed from priggishness.
11
The result is a pedantry, a priggishness, a solemnity about games which is simply deplorable.
12
The priggishness comes in when you begin to compare yourself with others, and to draw distinctions.
13
But here, such priggishness seemed redundant, even ludicrous.
14
There may be specimens there, for priggishness is just like painter's colic or any other trade-disease.
15
There is often a certain priggishness and pride in things foreign in saying, 'I am a Christian.'
16
At this time I was a mixture of childishness and priggishness, of curious knowledge and dense ignorance.