It was in consequence of that regret and his controversies with Prothero while they travelled together in China that his concern about what he called priggishness arose. ❋ Unknown (1906)
"Sets" are the rule, and priggishness is rampant, even in the primeval forest. ❋ William Henry Burton Wilkins (1897)
Both she and Edmund have highly developed moral sensibilities a kinder obverse of "priggishness" and Edmund, particularly, has to fight the temptation to compromise. ❋ Tim Stretton (2009)
But one of the reasons why the heavenly life is apt to appear in prospect so wearisome a thing is, because we are brought up to feel that the whole character is flattened out and charged with a serene kind of priggishness, which takes all the salt out of life. ❋ Arthur Christopher Benson (1893)
[17] As I may have remarked elsewhere, they often seem to confuse it with "priggishness," "cant," and other amiable _cosas de Inglaterra_. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)
The fact was, he was an ardent believer in the Good Boy of a certain order of school tales -- the boy who is seized with a sudden conviction of the intrinsic baseness of boyhood, and does all in his power to get rid of the harmful taint; the boy who renounces his old comrades and his natural tastes (which after all seldom have any serious harm in them), to don a panoply of priggishness which is too often kick-proof. ❋ F. Anstey (1895)
They bicker constantly, Clemen's Falstaffian appetites and uncontrollable bodily urges clashing with the priggishness and military discipline of Jimmy, a former air-force officer, and their ill-tempered dialogues are often hilarious. ❋ Joshua Lustig (2011)
Hell, even if you do ask these sort of questions of any book that comes along, the binary quality of selection rather than evaluation carries a certain … muso priggishness. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)
Austen's heroine is Fanny Price, informally adopted by her rich uncle and aunt; Fanny is generally passive and when she expresses an opinion tends towards priggishness (with the author's full approval); the stable conservative world of Mansfield Park is under threat from the cosmopolitan horrors of London, but Fanny supports the resistance. ❋ Nwhyte (2010)
Wets treated him as a living parody of dry priggishness, and Upshaw usually rose to their expectations—both in writing he signed his mail “Yours very dry” and in front of the cameras. ❋ DANIEL OKRENT (2010)
If Ryder follows his curmudgeonly mate, we'll be left with Dom Jolly's insufferable priggishness, Linford's unreconstructed attitude to women and Gillian's habitual knee-buckling. ❋ Julia Raeside (2010)
He was equally unyielding in his insistence on public modesty, in which he crossed well over the line into priggishness. ❋ Michael Hiltzik (2010)
She was steeped in the Bostonian culture of privacy and priggishness in a way that Alcott failed to understand. ❋ Susan Cheever (2010)
Despite all the nauseating antics of the corporate governance charlatans, who effectively sell priggishness and collectivization of executive responsibility instead of financial performance, it is not the purpose of corporate America to divine and pursue public policy, beyond assuring that it does not affront it. ❋ Unknown (2010)
We have wrongly tended to demonize and belittle Victorian values as just some hypocrisy and moral priggishness. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It is an art of the body, of corpulence and skinniness, flatulence and dropsy, of comic priggishness and irrepressible lust. ❋ Unknown (2010)
[I'm so tired] of her priggishness ❋ (2021)
