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  • adjective priggish

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Examples

  • Finally, carving out special exemptions for blue-nosed Christian therapists would set a very dangerous precedent.

    Wayne Besen: The Religious Right's Shadow Nation Wayne Besen 2011

  • However, Daniels has no one to blame but his own party -- which has become a bastion of intolerant, blue-nosed "family values" scolds.

    Wayne Besen: Mitch Daniels and the Family Values Trap Wayne Besen 2011

  • Finally, carving out special exemptions for blue-nosed Christian therapists would set a very dangerous precedent.

    Wayne Besen: The Religious Right's Shadow Nation Wayne Besen 2011

  • What will you leverage against me but blue-nosed writing anyway?

    Excerpt from Urdoxa 2.0 2010

  • Determined to maintain blue-nosed order in Boulder City, the government placed it under the jurisdiction of septuagenarian Sims Ely, shown here flanked by Reclamation offi cials Ralph Lowry and Walker Young.

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • Determined to maintain blue-nosed order in Boulder City, the government placed it under the jurisdiction of septuagenarian Sims Ely, shown here flanked by Reclamation offi cials Ralph Lowry and Walker Young.

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • He is a blue-nosed reindeer, who ate the Devil Fruit Human Human which enables him to converse with humans and animals alike.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Michael James 2009

  • In an ideal world, the government's attitude towards marijuana should rise above blue-nosed public hysteria or so-called religious morality and rather, look to science, medicine and public health while pondering important lessons from history (like the great success of Prohibition -- not!).

    Michael DeJong: A New "Green" Economy 2009

  • I'm torn between supporting the blue-nosed, lawsuit-happy elitists, and the semiliterate, poorly compressed marauders.

    Lore Sj 2008

  • I'm torn between supporting the blue-nosed, lawsuit-happy elitists, and the semiliterate, poorly compressed marauders.

    Flickr Fans Flustered Over Video Posting 2008

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