Significados de rather priggish en inglés

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

Of course they were from Boston, and equally of course they were rather priggish.

We in the West have learnt to despise ultimate meanings as unpractical and rather priggish things.

Of one of those inmates, the rather priggish Jack Tosswill, she had made a real conquest.

They have three rather priggish children, whose greatest punishment is not to be allowed to teach in the Sunday-school.

He was rough, absent-minded, careless, and awkward, rather priggish, and not at all agreeable to a dainty, beauty-loving girl like Rose.

This almost caused a disaster when a rather priggish client called and said he was on his way to visit the agency.

"It is a rather priggish thing to say, isn't it?"