priggishness 的定义
- fussy about trivialities or propriety, especially in a self-righteous or irritating manner:At the beginning of the book, Eustace is an unpleasant, unlikable, and priggish character.He never softened his message to please genteel tastes or priggish scruples.
priggishness 近义词
prudishness
priggishness 的近义词 4 个
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- I know that even I myself have occasionally, and by people who didn't know me of course, been charged with priggishness.
- She wondered vaguely whether there was a single aspiration left that did not lead to the paths of priggishness.
- If you had been a man no one would have detected your priggishness at all; at its worst it would have been called personality.
- Avoid priggishness, which is detestable mental dry-rot; and flee from cant, the convenient domino of hypocrisy.
- Little by little she arrived at the conclusion that refinement did not mean priggishness and that vulgarity was not humor.