Priggery

Word PRIGGERY
Character 8
Hyphenation prig ger y
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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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Contemporary priggery does not seem to extend its dubious protection to the old. ❋ Rus Bowden (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2006)

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. ❋ Lewis, C. S. (1955)

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. ❋ Lewis, C. S. (1955)

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. ❋ David Christie Murray (N/A)

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. ❋ Victor Gollancz (1930)

Her cooking, and its attraction, are in their being an act of rebellion, a retort to imagined locavore-healthy-food priggery by anyone anxious there's no comfort to be found in farmers' markets, or the menus of Alice ❋ Todd Essig (2012)

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