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What does priggish mean?

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Adjective
  1. Like a prig.
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And to be priggish about the sunglasses that people buy is out of touch with how people live their lives.
As a prodigal, Tom is forever annoying Sid, his priggish, elder half brother.
But if the anti-drugs campaigners are priggish and authoritarian, the arguments of pro-drugs campaigners are often equally unappealing.
Don't tell me Carmichael's case is much more serious, that's priggish and predictable.
He had been very careful not to buy anything too priggish, and flattered himself to say he had done a good job with it.
Neil is vain, priggish and, like his wife Iona, grimly materialistic.

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