priggish

How To Use priggish In A Sentence

• The movie is splendidly arrayed visually, but transforms her prim, priggish character and makes her lusty, strong-willed and far too politically progressive for her era.
• A pretty good defence mechanism is to be open - but also, I think, without being too priggish and sanctimonious, it's a kind of responsibility if you're in public life.
• Think how much better it is that the opposite: prissy, priggish public expression and sinning like mad privately.
• I consider offering the countervailing maxim ‘punctuality is the politeness of kings’, but feel it might sound priggish.
• On its simplest level, it traces two calamitous marriages: one between the sweet, idealistic Dorothea Brooke (Juliet Aubrey) and priggishly meanspirited Rev. Edward Casaubon (Patrick Malahide), the other pairing equally idealistic Dr. Tertius Lydgate (Douglas Hodge) with the wretchedly selfish Rosamond Vincy (Trevyn McDowell). By George, We've Got It
• Leslie Joseph portrays the small-minded, priggish, self-satisfied spinster to a T.
• And I used to have my little priggish laugh at the woman who counted her chickens before they were hatched and so forth, and I was convinced that honesty was the best policy, also a little priggishly.
• This professor acts so priggishly -- like a moderator with a gavel!
• He seems to me in the line of Jane Austen's failed fathers, less ineffectual than Emma's, less priggish than Anne's.
• The irony of Kinsey's character is that he isn't given to temptation in the usual sense (except to be as uncompromising as his priggish father).