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Exaggerated and arrogant properness
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priggishness
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The state or quality of being priggish.
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n. exaggerated and arrogant properness [syn: primness ]
Usage examples of priggishness.
Now, as I look back, I think it was sheer priggishness to resist so human and yet so reverent an impulse.
He is a typical middle-class Englishman, deeply tainted with priggishness in his earlier years, but in great part freed from it by the sweet uses of adversity.
Pierce was amused by the growing priggishness of the younger generation.