| 单词 | priggishly |
| 例句 | Racy enough for reprobates and rakes, or priggishly read by a congregation of stately stiff-backs, the work is spacious enough to accommodate any disposition. ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Meets the Hot Vax Summer 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z Morgan imbues Louisa with poignant grace, and Davis makes priggishly pious Anna less of a cartoon than she might otherwise be. Michael John LaChiusa's musical 'Rain' is just too outdated to remain relevant 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z As a son, husband and father, he behaved meanly and priggishly. Dr Livingstone had an all-but state funeral, yet now he makes us uneasy 2013-04-12T16:53:26Z The novel priggishly assures us that storms in love are all the result of private-property relations. What Can We Learn from Utopians of the Past? 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z Bill Brochtrup makes for a priggishly plotting Lord Wessex, the well-born but financially strapped gentleman who enters a deal with Viola's father for her hand in marriage. The Bard, times two: 'Shakespeare in Love' at SCR, plus Shakespeare, the retirement years – LA Times 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z But after a time Tristrem ceased to blink and began to lecture, not priggishly at all, but in a persuasive manner that was hard to resist. The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel "Men must needs follow when duty leads the way," said Captain Demer�, a trifle priggishly. The Story of Old Fort Loudon He remembered also rebuking her priggishly for unintelligible language and mincing away. The Rough Road "Oh yes," said the not too priggishly grammatical Lady Jane; "nowadays those sort of people dress like duchesses, and think themselves as good as any one." The Martian I think it's better to tell you the whole truth, Mary; I'm afraid I'm speaking awfully priggishly. The Hero Mr. Carey, the clergyman, is the leading talker; and he talks well, not priggishly, nor prosily, but speaks the right words in the right way, and wins the attention of his companions. Fifty-Two Stories For Girls You rail against scenery, but what could belong more to the order of things extraneous to what you perhaps a little priggishly call the delicacy of personal art than the arrangement you are speaking of? Picture and Text 1893 "Nowadays we prate less priggishly about honor because it is no longer a word with a single meaning." The Tyranny of Weakness "I didn't mean that, father, you know," she said priggishly. The Madigans It may be noted, for instance, that, while they led the nation in many of its higher departments, they could produce nothing having the atmosphere of what is rather priggishly called folklore. A Short History of England "I missed you so terribly, Miss Travers," he said, priggishly, "when you left us that I realized I was extremely attracted by you." Red Hair As to the clergymen who appear in this story, two of them are priggishly academic, a third is a comfortable antiquarian, and the fourth unacquainted with even the A.B.C. of his own pastoral theology. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 27, 1892 Pretty soon they would be representing the poet as a priggishly honest and judicious man. Là-bas "You are always so pragmatically and priggishly correct," she said. The Mountebank |
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