priggishness

/prig-ish/US // ˈprɪg ɪʃ //

骄傲自满,骄傲自满情绪,骄傲自满的态度,傲慢无礼

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : 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.

nounprudishness

Synonyms

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.