Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Thieving.
- noun The qualities of a prig; conceit; priggism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Priggism.
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- noun dated
thievery orroguery - noun
priggishness
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Examples
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The only comfort I can spot is that the Republican right is splitting in ways that may just rescue him, picking as official candidates Tea party activists whose views offend mainstream independents even more than the president's priggery.
Barack Obama needs to learn how to do low politics as well as lofty 2010
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Contemporary priggery does not seem to extend its dubious protection to the old.
Great Regulars: Gerontophobia is a pandemic in the media. Rus Bowden 2010
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Contemporary priggery does not seem to extend its dubious protection to the old.
Archive 2010-02-01 Rus Bowden 2010
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Her portrait of the private Ovitz is consistent with what one has read about the public man: he was tireless, fastidious to the point of priggery, and obsessed by notions of loyalty and betrayal.
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Her portrait of the private Ovitz is consistent with what one has read about the public man: he was tireless, fastidious to the point of priggery, and obsessed by notions of loyalty and betrayal.
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Her portrait of the private Ovitz is consistent with what one has read about the public man: he was tireless, fastidious to the point of priggery, and obsessed by notions of loyalty and betrayal.
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What pushed me over the edge into pure priggery was his face-the puffy bloated cheeks, the thick, moist, sagging lower lip, the yokel blend of drowsiness and cunning.
Surprised by Joy Lewis, C. S. 1955
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Long years (or years that seemed long) with the Knock had cured me of my defensive Wyvernian priggery, and I no longer supposed other boys to be ignorant of what I knew. 7bus the essay was on a quotation from Johnson.
Surprised by Joy Lewis, C. S. 1955
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He is a blend of genuine power and native priggery, and his faults are the more annoying because of the virtues they obscure and spoil.
My Contemporaries In Fiction David Christie Murray
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It was a most false charge, for the boys were enthusiasts, and enthusiasm is a form of self-forgetfulness as priggery is a form of self-consciousness.
The School and the World Victor Gollancz 1930
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