| Fortunately, the message couched within the narrative is neither excessively moralistic nor priggish. |
| Don't tell me Carmichael's case is much more serious, that's priggish and predictable. |
| As a prodigal, Tom is forever annoying Sid, his priggish, elder half brother. |
| And to be priggish about the sunglasses that people buy is out of touch with how people live their lives. |
| But if the anti-drugs campaigners are priggish and authoritarian, the arguments of pro-drugs campaigners are often equally unappealing. |
| That said, the text is often intractable or so annoyingly assertive as to appear priggish. |
