priggish

priggish
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
adj. pedantic, affected; fastidious, prim, precious; conceited, egotistical. See affectation, vanity.
II
(Roget's IV) modif.
Syn. vain, proud, pompous; see egotistic 2 .
III
(Roget's Thesaurus II) adjective Marked by excessive concern for propriety and good form: bluenosed, genteel, old-maidish, precise, prim, prissy, proper, prudish, puritanical, strait-laced, stuffy, Victorian. Idiom: prim and proper. See PLAIN.

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  • priggish — 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… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • Priggish — Prig gish, a. Like a prig; conceited; pragmatical. {Prig gish*ly}, adv. {Prig gish ness}, n. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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

  • priggish — 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;… …   Thesaurus of popular words

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

  • Priggish-ness — Priggish Prig gish, a. Like a prig; conceited; pragmatical. {Prig gish*ly}, adv. {Prig gish ness}, n. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • priggish — adjective see prig II …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • priggish — See priggery. * * * …   Universalium

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

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

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