priggish

  • 1priggish — 1 smug, self complacent, self satisfied, Complacent Analogous words: righteous, ethical, *moral: conceited, egotistic, self esteeming, self loving (see corresponding nouns at CONCEIT) 2 *prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, straitlaced, stuffy… …

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  • 2Priggish — Prig gish, a. Like a prig; conceited; pragmatical. {Prig gish*ly}, adv. {Prig gish ness}, n. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 3priggish — [[t]prɪ̱gɪʃ[/t]] ADJ GRADED (disapproval) If you describe someone as priggish, you think that they are a prig …

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  • 4priggish — adjective Miss Sinclair couldn t possibly have been as priggish as she seemed way back then Syn: self righteous, moralistic, holier than thou, sanctimonious, prudish, puritanical, prim, straitlaced, stuffy, prissy, governessy, narrow minded;… …

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  • 5priggish — prig ► NOUN ▪ a self righteously moralistic person. DERIVATIVES priggish adjective. ORIGIN originally in the sense «tinker, petty thief», later «disliked person»: of unknown origin …

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  • 6Priggish-ness — Priggish Prig gish, a. Like a prig; conceited; pragmatical. {Prig gish*ly}, adv. {Prig gish ness}, n. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 7priggish — adjective see prig II …

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  • 8priggish — See priggery. * * * …

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  • 9priggish — adjective like a prig Syn: prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical …

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  • 10priggish — Synonyms and related words: Quakerish, Victorian, abusive, blackening, blameful, censorious, choicy, choosy, condemnatory, condescending, conformist, conscientious, contemptuous, critical, damnatory, demure, denunciatory, deprecative, deprecatory …

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