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Значения термина priggish на английском

Exaggeratedly proper.

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      1
      They are violent, and at the same time quite raw and priggish.
      On The Art of Reading
      2
      The logical understanding must not be allowed to put on priggish airs.
      Humanly Speaking
      3
      It can mean someone who seems annoyingly earnest, or priggish, or judgmental.
      The Guardian
      4
      There was really nothing priggish about this statement, however it may sound.
      The Twenty-Fourth of June: Midsummer's Day
      5
      As for sexual politics, Adam in Paradise Lost is a priggish patriarch.
      The Guardian
      6
      Perhaps it was only someone you have annoyed with your nosy priggish ways?'
      Sovereign
      7
      The clergyman looked priggish in his efforts not to do so.
      The Necromancers
      8
      The first two lines are priggish, and the last three mere poetic balderdash.
      The Man Shakespeare and His Tragic Life Story
      9
      There was something about me in those days more than a little priggish.
      Tono-Bungay
      10
      He even saw himself as a pantheist, but the world is rather priggish.
      Borges at Eighty
      11
      Of all forms of conceit, preserve me from the priggish style.
      A Sweet Girl Graduate
      12
      This latter idiosyncrasy would, in another, have seemed either priggish or facetiously intended.
      The Sign at Six
      13
      God is something more than a priggish devotion, an intellectual formula.
      The Soul of a Bishop
      14
      To have refused would have looked priggish, she said to herself.
      The Amazing Interlude
      15
      Do you like men to have lofty ideas, and be priggish?
      Winding Paths
      16
      Rather a priggish, supercilious smile, she thought, taking a glance at his face.
      The Hollow of Her Hand
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