priggish

• “Of course it sounds what is commonly called priggish when a man, in the style of Mr. Barlow, is always imploring the boy who wins a race or gets a prize to turn his thoughts higher and to take no credit to himself for what is only a piece of good fortune, and is not so great a performance after all.”

  The Silent Isle

• “The recollection of the inner life, in which I was wont to think out such sayings, has made me more tolerant with so-called priggish children than most of their elders are prone to be.”

  Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life,

• “She uttered everything in a deliberate, old-fashioned way, with precise articulation, and a certain manner that an English mother would have called priggish, but which was only the outcome of Scotch stiffness, her father's rebukes, and her own sense of propriety.”

  Sir Gibbie

• “He has thus refined his notion of alterity from a "priggish" one that would not acknowledge any resemblance (14) between ancient paederasty and modern homosexuality, to an alterity that now "acknowledge [s], promote [s], and support [s] a heterogeneity of queer identities, past and present”

  The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality

• “Nonetheless I want to ask how one knows when one is being "priggish" about one's alterity?”

  The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality

• “When I called my earlier attitude "priggish," what”

  'That Obscure Object of Historical Desire'

• “(Similarly, the "priggish" Hoover, with his "love of publicity," "knew how to put on a political show" and "liked to jump in, and find a moral justification for doing so later.")”

  FDR & the Depression: The Big Debate

• “It is almost certainly Siegfried Sassoon's last childhood effort at composition before a new tutor, the hearty athletic Cambridge graduate Clarence Hamilton, made him feel that writing poetry was rather "priggish".”

  Archive 2006-11-01

• “Anybody that looks kind of priggish seems to be fair game.”

  CNN Transcript Jun 8, 2003

• “One thing more I will say, that I do not know where old Wordsworth condemned Crabbe as un-poetical (except in the truly 'priggish' candle case) though I doubt not that Mr. Woodberry does know.”

  Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II

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