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priggish adjective [ ˈprɪɡɪʃ ]

• self-righteously moralistic and superior.
• "a priggish little pedant"
Similar: self-righteous, holier-than-thou, smug, sanctimonious, moralistic, sententious, prudish, puritanical, prim, strait-laced, tight-laced, stuffy, starchy, prissy, Victorian, schoolmarmish, schoolmistressy, old-maidish, narrow, narrow-minded, censorious, Pecksniffian, Pharisaic, hypocritical, goody-goody, Grundyish,
Opposite: broad-minded, permissive,


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