| Although faced with accusations of priggishness and prudery, the council remains unrepentant, arguing that it is taking a principled stand. |
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| Stories of his arrogance, sarcasm and general priggishness have been doing the rounds in media circles for years. |
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| One of her qualities, priggishness, was energetically developed by Arnaud Berquin in his Ami des enfants. |
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| When I twitched slightly at the name of the artists, I resolved to not let my knee-jerk priggishness get in the way of giving this CD an attentive listen. |
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| But the actuality of nakedness forces us to choose between prurience and priggishness. |
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| But it looked good, his priggishness – shocking, and fresh, like the New Comedy used to. |
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| I have even noticed myself becoming cleverer, and now, at the age of nearly 60, I have almost thrown off adolescent habits of moral certainty and political priggishness. |
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| Looking back at her earnest, idealistic, ambitious adolescent self, Brittain deprecates her priggishness and arrogance, but they were her only weapons. |
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| Sean, we discover later in the first episode, is not immune to such blandishments, either, for all his priggishness, but he, at least, feels a sense of shame. |
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