Synoniemen & Informatie over | Engels woord PRIGGISH

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Voorbeelden van het gebruik van PRIGGISH in een zin

• Julian is the most mature of the group but, although well-meaning, his manner can at times come over as overbearing, pompous or priggish.
• He was considered methodical and efficient, but his opponents thought him priggish, prissy and lacking in charisma.
• Mrs Grundy, in Thomas Morton's 1798 play Speed the Plough, later used to exemplify a conventional or priggish person.
• ” A later biographer had this to say:

  That Josiah Gilbert Holland remained priggish and prudish to the end of his days is all too abundantly attested.

• He occupied several important and influential positions in various parts of India, but his priggish and often indiscreet behaviour endeared him to few of his colleagues and involved him in almost continual controversy.
• The reviewer objects to the book's theology as a "gross caricature", and says that "its tendency is toward the creation of the morbid and the priggish, the Philistine and the piously fraudulent".
• Not wanting to be outdone, or considered any less moral or less concerned than Caroline for the child's welfare, Lilia's mother-in-law sends Philip and his priggish spinster sister Harriet (Judy Davis) to Monteriano to obtain custody of the infant and bring him back to Sawston, where he can receive what she perceives to be a proper upbringing and education.
• Reviewers of Melody Maker expressed similar opinion: "It's simply a priggish plea for honesty set to the customary saccharin blather" and summarised that the song addressed "for those of us who still care enough to dream".
• has long since been superseded by secular anti-Catholicism, but the cultural afterburn remains virtually identical: to the Hillary Mantels of 21st-century Britain, Catholicism is retrograde, priggish, obsessive, fanatical, and, well, un-English.

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