| 单词 | priggish |
| 例句 | He grinned as if I were being unaccountably priggish. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “Very well, then, we will go away. And then perhaps”—Mary Poppins’s voice was at its most priggish—“you’ll be sorry you missed us.” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z And the hapless boy who represented the traveler was the priggish little scholar they most cordially disliked. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Forgetting that he’d ever been way behind the fashion curve, he was appalled, in some priggish, nouveau riche kind of way, that certain passengers appeared in the dining room in slacks and sneakers. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Galahad, a priggish, mute little boy, was playing some private game with his dolls—to which he remained attached long after most boys would have taken to soldiers. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Mantell was a lanky assemblage of shortcomings–he was vain, self-absorbed, priggish, neglectful of his family–but never was there a more devoted amateur paleontologist. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Suddenly, she was right there before me, that busy, priggish, conceited little girl, and she was not dead either, for when people tittered appreciatively at “evanesce” my feeble heart—ridiculous vanity!—made a little leap. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Forever wedded to convention, this conservative audience member is usually expressing priggish displeasure at some radical spin on a great work. | 'Teorema': ?Teorema? Goes From Film to Stage at Lincoln Center 2010-07-16T22:36:00Z Eleven or 12 at the time, he could not have known that in 1943 a lot of Brits would have found the film unusual, if not downright strange, and Candy a bit priggish, blustery, annoying. Good fellows: Martin Scorsese and Colonel Blimp 2012-10-28T13:00:01Z Q. What is the main complaint among the more priggish Losers about competing in the Invitational? Style Invitational Week 1437: One-offs — a ‘typo’ neologism contest 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z So your best bet is to avoid being either a priggish moraliser or a coolly detached cynic. Why are we so hostile to others? | Oliver Burkeman 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z However, for the Romantics of the next generation, and for readers ever since, that characterization sounded priggish — or worse. Virgil’s ‘The Aeneid’ still looks strikingly contemporary 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z O’Casey’s lampooning of the priggish stupidity of army officers and the indifference of a surgeon can be lead-footed. | 'The Silver Tassie': War Changes a Man, and a Play 2011-07-27T22:15:20Z Apparently, it is impossible to run the Downton Center For Ping Pong and Healing without bearing a priggish grin of accomplishment. Downton Abbey Watch: Bayonets Versus Feather Dusters 2012-01-16T13:58:47Z A trial ensued, depressing Kipling, the less popular character in the courtroom, where he appeared a “priggish killjoy.” Taking Another Look at the Author of ‘The White Man’s Burden’ 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z Cultural shock tremors tend to subside over the years, allowing later generations to chuckle at how squeamish and priggish their ancestors were. Review: In Richard Eyre’s Production of ‘Ghosts,’ the Clean Parts Are the Most Disturbing 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z He’s so insufferably priggish that at school his name, William Orser, has by common consent been elided to the nonexistent word “Worser,” just to drive him crazy. The Language of Love 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z Before that hospital goes up, Willie is fatally shot by the priggish and somewhat self-deluded romantic who happens to be the famous physician picked to run the place. Stories of Then That Still Hold Up Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z That phrase and “just banter” mirror each other perfectly: one denoting a priggish culture that is deemed to have overreached, the other a laid-back culture that is deemed to have been unfairly reined in. The age of banter 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z Rather than smart, they are smarty-pants: smug, priggish and set up for a pratfall. Girls of a Certain Age Challenge Hollywood 2011-06-03T16:57:32Z Clearly then, it is to the ideas embodied in this book, and not to its often powerful depiction of a priggish, proud and desolatingly lonely personality, that she wishes us to respond. The Professor of Poetry by Grace McCleen – review 2013-07-20T08:00:12Z The way you describe yourself, it’s almost as if you thought you were priggish. Joan Baez on 3 Days of Pregnancy and Priggishness at Woodstock 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z The corporate culture that it reflects and embodies is, above all, sanctimoniousness, nostalgic, and priggish. The Airbrushed Racing History of “Ford v Ferrari” 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Mr. Carvel’s Rupert has a priggish and shy side, compellingly at odds with the vulgarity of his product. How Rupert Murdoch Became the King of England 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Too closely, perhaps, and the ensuing corruption and hypocrisy is rife in a new conservatism that has shed most of its old restraints — except, perhaps, in Will’s priggish diction and bow-tie. The coddling of the conservative mind 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Despite the wonderful freedom of living in a less priggish society, there is a cost to abandoning the electric-fence thrill of taboos, the spark of naughtiness. Perspective | ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ was banned 90 years ago. Now we’re — yawn — bored by obscenity. 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Darcy, on the other hand, who in “Pride and Prejudice” is a figure stiff, priggish and remote, mostly interesting for his fortune, is here enlarged and given a surprising inner life. Books of The Times: ?Death Comes to Pemberley? by P. D. James - Review 2011-12-26T22:48:22Z But the update does no favors for Isabella, whose insistence on maintaining her sexual purity seems even more priggish in an implicit contemporary context. 2010-02-15T22:29:00Z It focuses on a narcissistic social media addict who is given a Pygmalion makeover by a somewhat priggish branding whiz. ‘Selfie,’ ‘A to Z’ and Others Refresh the Romantic Comedy 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z Evans and Eagan expose the seams in Ransom’s attire, the ways he cloaks himself in priggish privilege. The Curious Case of Chris Evans’s Sweater 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z To write about a decent hero in a book like this, you've got to understand this: the children reading this don't want a priggish holier-than-thou kind of character. Theodore Boone: The Accused by John Grisham - review 2012-08-30T14:00:00Z He’s fresher, smoother, more sexed up than today’s Richard — and also, in his way, a bit priggish. ‘On a Magical Night’ Review: Ghosts of Lovers Past and Present 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z It was hardly the first role that allowed him to explore fussy or priggish characters. Charles Kimbrough, Actor Best Known for ‘Murphy Brown,’ Dies at 86 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z Swartz's blog chronicled his failed, half-hearted attempts to fit in with his college peers, with "the tone of a priggish anthropologist studying some vulgar foreign culture." 'The Idealist' is a riveting look at activist Aaron Swartz and the free culture movement 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Moreover, it seems unlikely that Marvel would want to pitch Robert Downey Jr’s Iron Man as a villain again so soon after the powersuited titan’s uncomfortably priggish turn in the Russo Brothers’ film. Can the Hulk save Thor from becoming Marvel's puniest hero? 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z It's the blandly didactic product of priggish, literal, two-dimensional thinking. David Mitchell 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z Mr. Lewis, who played a steadfast American major in “Band of Brothers” and a priggish husband in “The Forsyte Saga,” brings a little of each of those traits to his portrait of Brody. Television Review: ?Homeland,? Starring Claire Danes, on Showtime ? Review 2011-09-29T16:32:19Z Whenever an athlete challenges nationalistic commonplaces, we are treated to priggish declarations that politicizing sport is a moral crime. Matt Lauer, pleasant corporate stooge: America’s double standard on politicizing the Olympics 2014-02-14T16:34:00Z Fordham University, the Jesuit institution in New York, claims to have blessed the team with its name, thanks to some priggish divines at the school. Los Angeles, land of the misnamed sports teams 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z He’s not a priggish bootstrapper but a plucky bon vivant who does his work with a smile, always “on the alert for business.” Rags-to-Riches Stories Are Actually Kind of Disturbing 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z He was “owning the libs” — hoisting them, as his supporters saw it, on their own petard of priggish propriety. Opinion | Goodbye Principled Conservatism 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z In chapter 36, Lucy arrives at the home of a priggish parson, whose wife is desperately ill with typhoid. Perspective | Online arts experiences that click with me 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z For all this unpleasantness, Cromwell never seems to have been guilty of the twin sins against modern liberal etiquette of being either priggish or a traditionalist. Review | The many mysteries of the powerful and deadly Thomas Cromwell 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z According to Nameberry.com, Nigella was a name that "sounded unthinkably priggish" until it became attached to Ms Lawson who "gave it a big dollop of glamour". Daughters named after their fathers 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z If that made the sometimes priggish Kennedy blanch, he didn’t show it. The day Robert Kennedy met Allen Ginsberg: 'Have you ever smoked pot?' 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z This priggish behavior will not end not by a longshot. Opinion | The Cost of Devaluing Women 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z Keith is stuffy, judgmental and priggish, trying so hard to master his sexual impulses that he can never let his hair down and just be. A man of power, a woman with aspirations, and a play that painfully echoes today's headlines – LA Times 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z Historians considered James K. Polk, the 11th president of the United States, to be “priggish” and “colorless,” but a debate over his resting place is stirring passions in Tennessee. London, Donald Trump, Keystone Pipeline: Your Evening Briefing 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z Lonely, priggish Mrs. Griffiths gets roaring drunk after a keen disappointment. Louis de Bernières’ ‘Notwithstanding’ a sweet journey to an English village 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z Clay and Jackson despised one another, and Clay told a friend that as between “the two evils,” he preferred the priggish and self-righteous Adams to the militaristic and perhaps demagogic Jackson. America’s First ‘Rigged’ Presidential Election 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z The famously strait-laced 17th-century sectarians who helped settle America weren’t nearly as priggish as you might think, a leading Puritan scholar says. You can leave your hat on: Scholar says Puritans were sexy 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z A leading Puritan scholar says the famously strait-laced 17th-century sectarians who helped settle America weren’t nearly as priggish as you might think. You can leave your hat on: Scholar says Puritans were sexy 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Biblical commenters consider the other, good son whiny and priggish, cruelly lacking empathy for his brother. Why We Pine for Manufacturing 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z Their prim, priggish formulations in this awkwardly disconnected article demonstrate the embarrassing lack of sophistication that passes for theoretical expertise among their over-paid and under-educated professors. Camille Paglia: PC feminists misfire again, as fossilized, fearful media can’t touch Donald Trump 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Immensely learned yet with nothing schoolmarmish about him, Fowler was able to lay down the law without seeming the least priggish. Death of a Word Man 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z The priggish, boorish, pharisaical right raged against him, and he soldiered on. Bill Clinton’s odious presidency: Thomas Frank on the real history of the ’90s 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z Ruff is a decent performer, too, but over and over she has been cast as a priggish black woman swimming in recrimination. African in the Heartland 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z For the modernists, being spiritually sick was a condition of intellectual respectability, and T. S. Eliot wrote that “there is something artificial and even priggish about Goethe’s healthiness.” Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Seventy-two and suffering from rheumatoid arthritis, he is cared for by his priggish, busybody sister Alexandra. Book Review: In Harper Lee’s ‘Go Set a Watchman’ Atticus Finch Defends Jim Crow 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z It’s easy to imagine that the studio’s hushed zeal might strike some as claustrophobic and priggish. Jonathan Ive and the Future of Apple 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z It is stuck with a priggish parent with no idea how to cope. Hong Kong Is Ready For Full Democracy 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z There is no doubt that the junta has taken on an increasingly priggish character. Are the Thais Really Going to Jail Sommeliers? 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z Though a bland, priggish sort—dubbed the Big Blue Boy Scout by detractors—he keeps evolving to meet the emotional needs of his adopted home. Lexington: Cape of good hope 2013-06-20T15:05:37Z The moment suggested that the president is more statist than Middle America, and a bit priggish too. Lexington: The price of hubris 2012-11-01T16:03:13Z "Will you stop this bourgeois priggishness?" the Canadian demanded, calling Paxman a "priggish, gullible British fool". Rewind TV: Newsnight; Panorama; Girls – review 2012-10-27T23:07:33Z Had she read his words in a novel they would have seemed to her priggish, unnatural, and superlatively impertinent. The Literary Sense 2012-04-02T02:00:28.147Z If you question that, just analyse your attitude to the Prodigal in our Lord's wonderful story, compared with that toward his respectable, cold-hearted and priggish elder brother. One Day at a Time and Other Talks on Life and Religion 2012-03-31T02:00:20.873Z Yet people who had enthusiastically accepted and extolled Adam Bede, with all its explicitly moralizing passages and its professedly preaching characters, suddenly found that Daniel Deronda was intolerably priggish and didactic. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z He classes it with Montaigne and says he scarcely ever tired of “the artless prattle” of the “priggish little clerk of King Charles’s council.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z As for the odds and ends that he stores up under the threshold, they are of more value than the treasures that the priggish Understanding displays in his show windows upstairs. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z "It's beautiful, but isn't it—just a little priggish?" Second String 2012-02-11T03:03:54.390Z Matthew Arnold's idea, that it is our duty to make the best ideas prevail, may seem priggish and dictatorial, yet fundamentally James had the same idea. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z This girl had an impish faculty for making him say things that sounded priggish: “You should have seen I was of your own class.” The Azure Rose A Novel 2011-12-31T03:00:18.657Z But lo! a priggish, upstart thing— Set here to tell so old a truth— How fleeting are our days of youth— You, that were only made last spring! The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z Even the priggish Higher Thought is not allowed to enjoy a sense of superiority. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z We cannot be absolutely sure that Florio sat for Holofernes; but at any rate the dramatist has depicted in that character in a most inimitable style the priggish mannerist, as he knew and saw him. Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters 2011-11-16T03:00:25.713Z There was nothing priggish or puritanical about Martin, nor anything namby-pamby that suggested wings and halos and hymns. Across the Stream 2011-11-05T02:00:11.673Z It wasn't to be supposed that he, Neale Crittenden, would go and be a missionary, was it, or any of those pious priggish make-shift devices to pretend that you were doing something worth while? Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z Could it be that he was not merely old-fashioned, but slightly priggish? Coelebs The Love Story of a Bachelor 2011-08-31T02:01:28.960Z I hate that priggish old ‘Hymn to Hamilton.’ Marjorie Dean College Junior 2011-08-27T02:00:22.827Z At the fiery town hall here, Mr. Romney showed flashes of feistiness, but he also found himself sparring with voters like a priggish crossing guard. Political Memo: On Trail, Casual Friday Versus Boardroom Cool 2011-08-26T03:24:19Z "But you are an evolutionist," declared Pauline, with a priggish little pursing of the lips that he found secretly very amusing. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z Then followed this priggish advice: Sister, farewell, and remember that modesty, as it makes the most homely virgin amiable and charming, so the want of it infallibly renders the most perfect beauty disagreeable and odious. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:37.443Z This judicial bent of the child is a curious one and often develops a priggish fondness for setting others morally straight. Children's Ways 2011-08-11T02:00:16.473Z He is a bit cocky and priggish, and a bit gallant, but my darling knows how to keep him in his place.” Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family 2011-07-08T02:00:20.557Z Yet about this one on the other hand there was nothing priggish, nothing self-conscious. The Red Derelict 2011-07-05T02:00:30.143Z Far from accepting Marjorie’s rebuke in the spirit in which it had been offered, she now yearned for revenge upon this priggish, goody-goody who had dared to remind her of her shortcomings. Marjorie Dean High School Senior 2011-06-06T02:00:09.407Z Who was this boy to set his priggish manners above hers? Hope Benham A Story for Girls 2011-05-16T02:00:18.193Z They too can on such occasions be priggish if not downright hypocritical. Children's Ways 2011-08-11T02:00:16.473Z I am no walking code of priggish courtesy; I am merely a man who knows exactly what he wants most, and, missing that, deceives himself with nothing less. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z "She certainly is a terrible trial, narrow minded and priggish, and I don't wonder, Amy, that you dislike her." Amy in Acadia A Story for Girls 2011-04-29T02:00:08.307Z I don't think we were priggish in our seriousness. I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z And yet if we had been that low-cut lady we would certainly have given that interfering and priggish little youngster a walloping. Seeing Things at Night 2011-04-10T02:00:05.360Z As the budget showdown in Washington nears its climax, Jon Stewart takes a look at the rhetorical strategies employed by congressional Republicans and Democrats -- and finds it all a little bit infantile and priggish. Schumer claims progress in late-night budget talks 2011-04-06T12:15:00Z I just wish he wouldn't be so priggish when other politicians play constituency pork barrel too. Budget 2011: Not much for the Lib Dems to cheer about 2011-03-24T12:10:26Z Amy was telling me of some priggish things that Miss Belloc had said, and I did use those very words yesterday. Amy in Acadia A Story for Girls 2011-04-29T02:00:08.307Z He spoke with his characteristically priggish air, with a pomposity ludicrously like his father’s, and doubly ludicrous in a lad of barely sixteen. Jane Lends A Hand 2011-03-20T02:00:32.553Z By the way, Morris is a better fellow than I used to think him: a little priggish or so, but good-hearted at bottom, and honest as the sun. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z He was a handsome fellow then--I remember him perfectly--but a little priggish, rather stupid, and possessed of a horrible talent for lecturing. Danira 2011-02-06T03:00:59.460Z I leave you alone to manage your Englishmen and your triumph; for the latter that priggish volunteer, that E., has already cared. A Hero of the Pen 2011-02-04T03:00:19.217Z Nearly all others of this kind are prudish, priggish, and inartistic. Literature for Children 2011-02-02T03:00:21.560Z Eric, or Little by Little is priggish from start to finish. The Lighter Side of School Life 2010-12-24T03:00:31.150Z And you—you," she added, with a little tremble of real anger in her tone, "you're too hatefully polite and priggish! The Hillman The boy had it on his lips to say that his parents could not do without him; but he felt that his words would sound strange and elderly and priggish. Small Souls Michael came to the conclusion that he liked Balliol, that most unjustly had he heard its atmosphere stigmatized as priggish. Sinister Street, vol. 2 You're perfectly content and you think you can be as priggish as you like, as long as you conceal it by making fifty runs in the Dulford match. Sinister Street, vol. 1 No dry-as-dust, grim, solemn owl of a lawyer for my little Canadian rosebud, old as the everlasting hills, and priggish as the devil. Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir It's all right to have them about yourself, I suppose, but to have them about other people is priggish, and quite useless, so far as I can see. Nancy of Paradise Cottage Her husband was a boor; her house pretentious and slovenly; her girls, the two elder, pretentious, priggish, envious; Marie, the youngest girl, a sort of Cinderella, but a sweet, shy, down-trodden, quiet child.... Small Souls I felt, somehow, that I was a shameful hypocrite, and Miss Jones a priggish but most charming and most injured angel. The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece "Don't be a priggish little donkey, Gerry," she added, not unkindly. Just Gerry I wanted to say something about Helen of Troy, but I did not know what conclusion to draw from her history, and besides it would sound so foolish and priggish. Fragments of an Autobiography She was not priggish about this discovery of hers. The Duchess of Wrexe Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary With her her son, a man of twenty-six to thirty, priggish, argumentative, contrary-minded—altogether the most cub-like young Briton I have lately encountered. The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. "That's priggish," said Oswald; "besides, we don't know whether we shall be so very." The Wouldbegoods Very recently they have met with a little priggish depreciation, the natural and indeed inevitable result, first of a certain change in speech and manners, and then of their long and vast popularity. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) I began to hate it for its rectilinearity, and dub it a priggish, stuck-up, arrogant upstart among cities. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) No priggish fool to provoke me shall dare, To my valour alone I am trusting. The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine. Those noble boys and girls decry The priggish use of “It is I.” The So-called Human Race Of course so quaint and remarkable a child was much petted and spoiled, and probably rendered somewhat conceited and priggish. Home Life of Great Authors And he is unable, because the words he is accustomed to use are valueless in this connection, and he feels priggish if he tries to use others.... Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development How uneasy I had been then, how absurdly young and priggish then in the gingerly way I had gone at the harbor. The Harbor He was a precise, priggish man, extraordinarily vain though no vainer than Lensley, who, however, had an easy manner that Boltt would never acquire. Changing Winds A Novel Later I felt as if I had been selfish and priggish, and resolved to visit the home in Harlem and try to arrange matters. Melomaniacs But boys whose brains are amenable to academic training are liable, unless the environment of the school is peculiarly unfavourable to the development of the species, to become priggish. The Curse of Education The ordinary conversation of people gathered together for social purposes is not particularly intellectual, and any attempt to make it so at present seems priggish. The Meaning of Evolution You are one of those painfully priggish people, Mr. Trevor, who will never get on in the world. The Time of Roses Perhaps it is priggish of me, but I feel that if I'm mean in one thing I may be mean in another. Changing Winds A Novel You must not think this priggish of me. The Belovéd Vagabond “He is not priggish in the least,” was Phillis’s annoyed rejoinder. Not Like Other Girls "What a pity," he thought, "that such a fine young Prince should be so priggish when his own interests are concerned!" In Brief Authority It disposed of the discussion of the subject, but left matters so that stolid silence would have been priggish. Somehow Good Books were a matter of course, to be taken up and put down as the reader pleased, and nothing to grow priggish about. Otherwise Phyllis Don't let that priggish Dean girl scare you. Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore Clever girls are generally a little priggish, do you know? Not Like Other Girls And they both loved good music—Mozart, Bach, Beethoven—and were almost priggish in their contempt for anything of a lighter kind; especially with a lightness English or French! The Martian The praise given to him is not a priggish fiction of our conventional history, though such fictions have illogically curtailed it. What I Saw in America Everything sentimental and priggish will be consecrated by it. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy He was deep in a business discussion with his priggish son-in-law. The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man ‘I always knew Jack to be a clever dog,’ said Mervyn, when this was reported to him, ‘but his soft sawder to a priggish metaphysical baby must have been the best fun in the world?’ Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster They would say she was mean and priggish, for she might have told Berta as easily as not. Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls Shall you think me priggish and call me disagreeable if I tell you that it is no life for a woman brought up like you?' Fair Margaret A Portrait With exquisite concision she sets her carefully selected facts and types before you, and being the antithesis of priggishness in a priggish city, she glorifies "the common growth of Mother Earth," and compels your agreement. American Sketches 1908 Her temper was even, and her nature was finer than her prim, priggish ways would have led the casual acquaintance to suppose. When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood I became wretchedly certain that I should be only absurd and priggish, that she would not believe me, would see only excuse and hypocrisy in what I said. The King's Mirror She isn’t a bit priggish, you know, but just naturally interested in everything good. Jewel Weed This particular book had a particularly priggish expression, like Lushington's yellow shoes, which were too good and too new, and which he was examining with apparent earnestness. Fair Margaret A Portrait He was selfish and priggish and worse, he was piggish— A regular beast of a brute. The Book of Humorous Verse Most girls of her age are inclined to be sentimental and occasionally priggish. Lalage's Lovers I have little doubt that I, on my part, was formal, priggish, perhaps absurd; all these faults she charged me with. The King's Mirror So speaks proud and pious Philadelphia—snug, smug, prosperous, priggish and pedantic Philadelphia. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen "It was a very creditable ride indeed," insisted Wallie, in his most patronizing and priggish manner. The Dude Wrangler Worn straight by the priggish or surly Thou didst not enthuse or beguile; But tilted a little and curly Of brim—how seductive thy style! Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 15, 1916 My mother would not say things like that about schoolboys, though they are at least equally sentimental and most of them more priggish. Lalage's Lovers You drink confusion to the priggish provincial faddist whose State we have just passed, and continue your dinner. The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 But when these critics themselves attempt to describe their conceptions of future happiness, it is always some priggish nonsense about “planes,” about “cycles of fulfilment,” or “spirals of spiritual evolution.” Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens It's of the brutal mistake of one's breaking—with one's priggish, precious modernity and one's possibly futile discriminations—into a general situation or composition, as we say, so serene and sound and right. The Outcry Not that there was anything "priggish" about him. Canoe Boys and Campfires Adventures on Winding Waters Sometimes when off guard, he found himself slipping into the manner which seemed more natural, and then he wondered if his policy of aloofness might not savor of the priggish. The Tyranny of Weakness Why, how absurd and priggish and offensive such a course of action would be? The Dictator Any priggish pupil teacher could tell Dickens that there is no such phrase in English as “our mutual friend.” Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens It certainly was a rather priggish answer, but let me say in self-defence that before I left the school I had become as keen on "Lord's," as the best of my compeers. Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography You don't belong to our set, and therefore know very little about Ada's conceit and—yes, I shall say it—priggish ways. Aunt Judith The Story of a Loving Life The parting with Tom did not affect me much, as he had got priggish and rather above a boy like me since he had been to Oxford. Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea The priggish, good-looking youth for whom Lady Mason risks so much. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 I will not call it “the will to live,” for that is a priggish phrase of German professors. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens Men who meet for purposes of mutual flattery become unnaturally solemn and priggish; they never free themselves from the suspicion that the older members of the coterie may be laughing at them behind their backs. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Horrible as it was, it wasn’t so orthodox and priggish and mirthless as what came before.” The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story Better a thousand times such training as this in the thick of life's real conflicts than any volitional calisthenics or priggish self-denials entered into solely for the training of the will! The Mind and Its Education Excuse my possibly priggish tone, but they really attribute to my dear detached friend a part he's quite incapable of playing. The Tragic Muse There is a low priggish maxim sometimes uttered by men so frivolous as to take humour seriously—a maxim that a man should not laugh at his own jokes. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens Shy and priggish, he continued to lead his lonely life. Civilization Tales of the Orient Such things sound somewhat priggish today; but in those days they were a necessary part of one's education. Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers I accused her at the time of a priggish, unnatural craving for things of the intellect. Foe-Farrell It sounds priggish, but I don't mean man. The Prelude to Adventure She was the least priggish person in the world, but no one who knew her could doubt for an instant her transparent goodness. My War Experiences in Two Continents He's priggish and conceited; he's a poser, too. The Shield of Silence But just the things in which he felt himself superior, utterly different in fact from Billy, were the stupid, priggish things that no one boasts of. Great Possessions I nipped him every time he attempted to explain what it was, and to this moment I don't know, but it did not prevent him from saying tiresome, loving things, mixed with priggish advice. Red Hair It is so difficult because it is about God, and we all of us feel, and rightly I expect, that it is priggish to talk about God at all. The Prelude to Adventure It's a frightfully priggish thing to say, but I'm extraordinarily interested as to what's going to happen next—inside, I mean. None Other Gods I shall be sorry to see poker take the place of roulette, and the Christ Church meadows turned into a ranch for priggish cowboys, or Addison’s Walk re-named the Cake Walk. Masques & Phases Of one of those inmates, the rather priggish Jack Tosswill, she had made a real conquest. What Timmy Did Fortunately, the assistant medico was not one of those priggish puppies who, having little professional knowledge to balance their own inherent stupidity, fancy it necessary to support their dignity by the agency of etiquettes alone. The Lieutenant and Commander Being Autobigraphical Sketches of His Own Career, from Fragments of Voyages and Travels They are violent, and at the same time quite raw and priggish. On The Art of Reading If I seem to have given rather a priggish picture of Arthur, it is a totally erroneous one. Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge Extracted From His Letters And Diaries, With Reminiscences Of His Conversation By His Friend Christopher Carr Of The Same College Now, as it happened, Valentine Landry, driving away in a priggish state of mind, was suddenly overwhelmed by miserable remorse. The Gay Cockade Yes, and Bob Maper, too—her anger ricocheted to him—with his priggish notions of saving her from black bogs! The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes Ellen thought it rather wonderful too, and looked at her toes with a priggish blankness. The Judge Come," he said, "whatever happens, do not become priggish. The Child of the Dawn The logical understanding must not be allowed to put on priggish airs. Humanly Speaking She saw his earnest young face, with the sleek dark hair, which swept in a point back from his forehead, his sombre smoke-coloured eyes, and the firm, slightly priggish line of his mouth. One Man in His Time You seem to think that curing a cancer in one's mind is rather an effeminate thing to do, Louis—rather a priggish thing. Captivity "He canna spell an easy word like 'examination,' an' he had twenty-two mistakes in his dictation test," he went on, and she was quick to note the air of priggish importance in his utterance. The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner "And in any one else," she retorted, "that would be priggish as well as disingenuous." Success A Novel He was not in the least priggish about it. The Real Adventure The style of Mr. Alfred Jingle Was jumpy, but he did not clog His sense with woolly words, like PRINGLE, With priggish petulance, like HOGGE. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 9, 1917 A sense of his smallness and narrowness, of his priggish blindness, rose like a mockery in his soul. The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel She had been afraid of appearing stiff or priggish, but her self-consciousness quickly vanished in the broad, wholesome democracy of college life. A Hoosier Chronicle Wasn't he fooling himself with words, with priggish phrases? The Brimming Cup None of those moral qualities, priggish or otherwise, are assumed for Mr. Gresley which, we are told, distinguish the true, the perfect gentleman, and some of which, thank Heaven! the "gentleman born" frequently lacks. Red Pottage You see, your role demanded a good deal more ability than you ever displayed in it, and it did not seem fitting that a very puritanical and priggish person should pose as me at Silverdale. Winston of the Prairie He seemed an ordinary, rather priggish, opinionated country boy, and I wrote and said—Oh, I said that the world is the world; take it as it is. The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel You can say a lot of things in a Cockney accent which said without any accent sound priggish. The Altar Steps He is made to cite the 'Superior Man' as the model of excellence; and that phrase sounds to us detestably priggish. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 In any case, the little domestic scene between the priggish father and the dandling mother is amusing and instructive to parents as well as to etymologists. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 It need not make him priggish or self-satisfied if parents let him understand that they take pride in seeing him practise and develop the virtue they aim at. The Nervous Child There was really nothing priggish about this statement, however it may sound. The Twenty-Fourth of June But you are old enough to understand that your fastidiousness, if it isn't to be priggish, must be safeguarded by your humility. The Altar Steps The clergyman looked priggish in his efforts not to do so. The Necromancers The hero of the novel is the young man’s friend, Lord Lexamont, who makes the ‘great renunciation,’ and succeeds in being fine without being priggish, and Quixotic without being ridiculous. Reviews She need not be too deeply read, You do not want a priggish bride; But still take care the pretty head Can boast some little brain inside. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 7, 1891 Saint Simon, that priggish duke, has had a million given him to repay a debt his father took on for the king a generation ago. The Mississippi Bubble His gentlemen, whether young or old, are apt to be stiff, priggish, and commonplace; and his ladies, especially his young ladies, are as deficient in individuality as the figures and faces of a fashion-print. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Under a mass of silly moralizing, he nearly buried the real Washington, giving us instead a priggish, punk youth, and a Madame Tussaud, full-dress general, with a wax-works manner and a wooden dignity. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen Chess, by Mr. Louis Tylor, is a sort of Christmas masque in which the dramatis personæ consist of some unmusical carollers, a priggish young man called Eric, and the chessmen off the board. Reviews There is no need to be priggish or fantastic in our choice of words or phrases. The Glory of English Prose Letters to My Grandson Even Saint Simon, that priggish little duke of ours, tells me that France should have this stone, that it is a dignity which should not be allowed to pass away from her. The Mississippi Bubble You thought we were a little priggish, provincial world where nothing mattered. Lady Connie One man may say, "Why should the jolly English inns and villages be swamped by these priggish provincial Yankees?" The New Jerusalem His character is, on the whole, well drawn, and the authors have almost succeeded in making him good without making him priggish. Reviews And did she want to be as wise as they, To bear a bucklered heart and priggish mind? Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. This studied respect for his superior officer on the Supervisor's part encouraged Brent to deliver from time to time rather priggish little homilies on the way to run a Forest. The Rules of the Game It occurs to us that perhaps the handsome fellow's immense good-humor and generosity are as good inheritance as the selfishness and cold avarice of priggish young Horace Gallatin, who never drinks a drop. Hillsboro People Nor were Prescott and his chums priggish enough to take great credit to themselves for their behavior. The High School Pitcher Dick & Co. on the Gridley Diamond How the statuesque myth and the priggish myth and the dull and solemn myth melt away before it! George Washington, Volume I Papa always says that boys are good for girls; they keep you from getting priggish and conceited. Phebe, Her Profession A Sequel to Teddy: Her Book We in the West have learnt to despise ultimate meanings as unpractical and rather priggish things. The Secret City I see now that this was very priggish of me, but I am quite as uncompromising in my hatred of scandal now as I was then. The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections "It seems to me rather priggish to condemn it!" Father Payne They clear away all the myths—the priggish, the cold, the statuesque, the dull myths—as the strong gusts of the northwest wind in autumn sweep off the heavy mists of lingering August. George Washington, Volume I We have, in the passages quoted, a foretaste of the priggish extravagance of the Faithful Shepherdess. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England He is, as I have said, a high-minded, intelligent, and sensible man; but he thinks it priggish to let his real opinions be known, and thus is priggish without perceiving it. The Silent Isle One remark of the lecturer, if he might venture to say so, seemed to him, a poor ignorant farmer of sixty years' standing, not only uncalled-for and priggish, but downright brutal. Hodge and His Masters "Many fine things sound priggish when they are said," said Father Payne. Father Payne But the blameless and priggish boy, and the equally faultless and uninteresting man, whom he originated, have become in the process of development a myth. George Washington, Volume I It was proof of Hiram's great love for the boy that he had no impulse of anger at this display of what seemed to him the most priggish ignorance. The Second Generation The pathos of the situation is that we all desire happiness—it is merely priggish to pretend that it is otherwise—and that we do not know in the least how to attain it. The Silent Isle He's very much what you will be, Bill, in about thirty years from now—a plain, good, priggish old fellow. From out the Vasty Deep No, I don't want to say anything priggish," he added, seeing a contraction of Father Payne's brows; "I only want to say what I feel. Father Payne To be "jolly well even" with him, Mrs. Skaggs did a most priggish thing. The Man from Brodney's Some priggish little clerk will say, "I have reason to congratulate myself that I am a civilised person, and not so bloodthirsty as the Mad Mullah." All Things Considered They have three rather priggish children, whose greatest punishment is not to be allowed to teach in the Sunday-school. The Silent Isle Also he had been, in his own priggish way, a very, very good and useful friend to her. From out the Vasty Deep Absolon, a priggish parish clerk, paid her attention, but she herself loved a poor scholar named Nicholas, lodging in her husband's house. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook "I think it very possible," drawled the Countess, looking at him, nevertheless, with a certain contempt for what she privately considered his priggish, underbred cant. The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage Another was young Burke, that very priggish and silly young man as he seems to have been, whose loss, none the less, broke the tender heart of his father. Samuel Johnson And this use of archaeology in shows, so far from being a bit of priggish pedantry, is in every way legitimate and beautiful. Intentions He was always exceedingly clean, precise, and tidy; perhaps somewhat priggish, and the most retiring man in the world. Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people There was something about me in those days more than a little priggish. Tono Bungay Marmaduke looked at him, and began to think that he was a priggish fellow after all. The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage They had been silly and priggish, but no more—I would have taken my oath on it. Mr. Standfast To be "intellectual" or "artistic" or, in their own word, to be "highbrow," is to be priggish and of dubious virtue. Main Street It is only the quite arbitrary and priggish habit of comparison with something else which makes it possible to be at our ease in front of him. Heretics It struck him, directly he had found it, as pompous and priggish; so much so that he was thankful to Chad for taking it only in the right spirit. The Ambassadors Was it that little priggish, insignificant fellow that she had made a god of? Frances Waldeaux Nobody but obsequious politicians and priggish "Daughters" wants to make them out as models of virtue and conformity. Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, with a Few Observations She watched Paul growing irritable, priggish, and melancholic. Sons and Lovers He remembered her pretty face and priggish speeches with a sudden secret vividness which is all the bitterness of death. The Innocence of Father Brown He felt quite grateful to them, in his priggish way—their management in this matter had been so eminently satisfactory. Wylder's Hand I look to myself presumptuous and priggish in the memory. Wilfrid Cumbermede She was not a priggish child, and did not deserve the mockery with which her barbarian brother invaded her little temple. Weighed and Wanting The first two lines are priggish, and the last three mere poetic balderdash. The Man Shakespeare This would make the man perhaps nobler, but surely not so natural; indeed it would sound like a priggish excuse to leave his mistress. Robert Browning: How to Know Him "A good giant, then," said a priggish imp, with a face as round as the late plum-pudding. Adela Cathcart, Volume 3 This latter idiosyncrasy would, in another, have seemed either priggish or facetiously intended. The Sign at Six When the street children shouted too loud, certain priggish disciples did begin to rebuke them in the name of good taste. Tremendous Trifles If he now thought her priggish,—well, that did place him. A Fountain Sealed I'll admit, Daunt, that I didn't relish some of the priggish preachment on politics mouthed by him in his office when we were there. All-Wool Morrison She loved to give good advice and to lay down the law, and was rather priggish in bringing out moral maxims for the benefit of others. Monitress Merle Before the war the word "ideals" had grown out-of-date and priggish—we had substituted for it the more robust word "ambitions." The Glory of the Trenches But if he did - No, I think he will be a staff to guide a silly, priggish heart to the deeper wisdom.” Modern Broods His one-time partner, the fair and fleet-footed "Dorphy," had deserted him for good and sufficient cause, and his hard old heart rebelled against priggish Christians and their superior ways. My Tropic Isle Aye," sighed my uncle George, "you were always such an infernal dasher—" "As it is, the boy will grow into a priggish, self-satisfied do-nothing, and she into an adoring, solitary old woman—" "Julia! Peregrine's Progress In no way should he be led to emphasize them or give a priggish importance to his knowledge of them. Mankind in the Making There has, in fact, been something a little "priggish" in her superior attitude, in her perpetually drawn comparison between Russian "barbarism" and Finnish "culture." The War and Democracy He's a bit of a prig—in fact, he's as priggish as he well can be—but he's never done anything but run straight. Hyacinth He's not—God bless him—he's not the dreary, cold-blooded, priggish boy he sometimes pretends to be. Peter's Mother Why couldn't he find some fault with her?—imagine her cold, priggish, dull, too cautious. Tenterhooks All this he encouraged and abetted, though always, too, with a sort of twinkle of the eye, lest I should take myself too seriously and wax priggish. Hawthorne and His Circle Any idea of ordering this bath according to his own meagre standards of living would have been priggish and not a little wicked. Tales of the Jazz Age But I was arrogant in my behavior to the boys at school, and they had good reason to consider me whimsical and priggish. The Story of a Child Let no one suppose that because my father was a saint, as undoubtedly he was, his general attitude towards life was of the priggish or puritanical kind. The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography But here at West Point former social lines had no significance, unless it was to invite trouble down upon the head of any new cadet who felt inclined to be priggish. Dick Prescott's First Year at West Point The heroine of the last-named work, an odiously priggish child called Daisy Randolph, refused to sing on a Sunday when desired to do so by her mother. Here, There and Everywhere He was rather hurt at my not making his misfortune of more importance: but it seems to have been accident, all except the priggish self-confidence that led to it.' The Pillars of the House, V1 "When you consider a patient," he said, "do you arrange a diagnosis of a type or of a person?—And, by the way, 'type' is a priggish word." Mrs. Falchion, Complete Of course they were from Boston, and equally of course they were rather priggish. A Man of Samples Something about the men he met "On the Road" The minute you try to, she sounds priggish and preachy, and—impossible. Pollyanna Grows Up Rather a priggish, supercilious smile, she thought, taking a glance at his face. The Hollow of Her Hand There is none of your modern priggish care for the state of your soul. Old French Romances He could not dance; his conversation was priggish; it was impossible to feel at ease when speaking to him. Cashel Byron's Profession I don't want to be a priggish Ellen, or a moral Fleda, and I do detest bothering about self-improvement all the time. A Garland for Girls What I was going to try and put into words without sounding too priggish, Lady Cynthia," he went on, "is this. The Evil Shepherd "It is a rather priggish thing to say, isn't it?" The Hollow of Her Hand Have him up, by all means, and let us hear what priggish nonsense he has to say. At Last His own priggish desires, which enslave him, themselves betray him to the tyranny of others. The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great Other men had poured poetry into Polly Brewster's ears, and she had thought them vapid or priggish or affected, according as they had chosen this or that medium. The Unspeakable Perk Really it was most absurd!—and the little sermon of the enamoured clergyman to his pretty penitent was as unique as it was priggish. God's Good Man That is another thing which grows upon me, my dislike of mere chatting: it is not priggish to say it, because I regret and abominate my stupidity in that respect. The Upton Letters Why is it that so many people would think it priggish and effeminate to try to improve their talk, and yet think it manly and rational to try to shoot better? From a College Window A law so plainly calculated for the destruction of all priggish greatness, that it was indeed impossible for our hero to avoid it. The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great I am very anxious that they should not be priggish, and I do not think they are in any danger of becoming so. The Altar Fire He simply regards it as a desire to meddle, a priggish and pragmatical act, and even as a sneaking desire to inflict punishment by proxy. Where No Fear Was After all, priggishness is often little more than a failure in tact, a breach of good manners; it is priggish to be superior, and it is vulgar to let a consciousness of superiority escape you. The Upton Letters But he would be wise and prudent; he would not be sentimental or priggish or Jesuitical. Watersprings After all, only priggish people,—the kind of people who lived at Champion Hill. In the Year of Jubilee He did not adopt a priggish attitude on these matters,—he simply knew that there were other things which were better sport. Theodore Roosevelt There was a certain priggish Sunday-school stiffness over him, priggish and detestable. Women in Love To propose straight out would be thought priggish and affected and is supposed to belong only to people in books. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town It's priggish to think about wasting one's sweetness. Watersprings Because I was a priggish young cub, I suppose. The Gadfly I love, I say, and scarcely ever tire of hearing, the artless prattle of those two dear old friends, the Perigourdin gentleman and the priggish little Clerk of King Charles's Council. Roundabout Papers In the presence of some priggish youths, we have heard a cheerful old man declare that, apparently, there would soon be nothing but "old boys" left. Character Two gay and gladsome boys they are; really good without being priggish; I don't think I could stand that. Stepping Heavenward He said a few sentences, supposed to be Howard teaching, in a rather soft voice, with what seemed to Howard a horribly affected and priggish emphasis. Watersprings As Matthew he had seemed to her conceited, priggish. The Fawn Gloves At first Bobbie found it quite hard to be as nice to him as she wanted to be, for fear he should think her priggish. The Railway Children Her instinctive point of view, when she went so far as to hold one, was somewhat cut and dried; in a word, priggish. Story of Waitstill Baxter To have refused would have looked priggish, she said to herself. The Amazing Interlude The speeches in Irish brogue, Teutonic Jargon, and down-east Yankee dialect, with utterances interposed here and there by solemnly priggish members, were inimitable. Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2 Of course in such an atmosphere a girl like myself, of serious not to say priggish tendency, did not escape a concerted pressure to push her into the "missionary field." Twenty Years at Hull House; with autobiographical notes God is something more than a priggish devotion, an intellectual formula. Soul of a Bishop “His manners, I think, you said are not to your taste?—priggish and parsonic?” Jane Eyre There may seem to be something priggish in a meticulous discipline, but otherwise it is so easy to slip into indolent habits—and to be distracted from one's purpose. The New Machiavelli It wasn't that there was anything priggish about any of us; we should have been prigs to have concealed our spontaneous interests and ape the theoretical boy. The New Machiavelli |
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