priggish

Speech parts

1. priggish - Adjective

2. priggish - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Like a prig; conceited; pragmatical.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

victorian prissy prim puritanical prudish strait-laced square-toed straitlaced straight-laced tight-laced straightlaced puritan pedant bluenose prude
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Antonyms

pert off blue horny prepare crude
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Phrases with the word

priggish person

Examples

Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by. To be 'intellectual' or 'artistic' or, in their own word, to be 'highbrow,' is to be priggish and of dubious virtue. Sinclair Lewis

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument. George Sand

my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

priggery prigging Priggione priggish person priggishly priggishness