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priggish [ˈprɪgɪʃ] ADJ abw

priggish

moralizatorski

Einsprachige Beispiele (nicht von der PONS Redaktion geprüft)

Englisch

The left and right can be equally priggish in this.

www.smh.com.au

She is prudish, priggish and painfully self-conscious.

www.telegraph.co.uk

Or was it two parents exercising their right to lightly mock their priggish offspring and set him right about the ways of the imperfect world?

www.telegraph.co.uk

I can envisage myself as having become a priggish headmistress.

www.independent.co.uk

If this sounds severe, or even priggish, it doesn't seem so.

www.ft.com

This is emotive and priggish; it aims to provoke a gaffe instead of soliciting an insight.

www.ft.com

He is priggish and repressed and arrogant.

www.advertiser.ie

This is a beautiful mixture of pride, ambition, an almost priggish sense of justice and yet the saving grace of the character an ironic self-awareness.

en.wikipedia.org

Sometimes, however, in our passion for pristine behavior among elected politicians -- especially those formally exercising power -- we can become a trifle priggish.

windsorstar.com

Apparently the great and the good don't like it when comedy is censored by priggish undergrads.

www.spiked-online.com