priggishness
- noun
- /ˈprɪɡɪʃnəs/
- Offensive
:
mojigatería
- He describes "the mood of those times" as "freer, more spontaneous, less inhibited, with no prudishness or priggishness, or at least very little" (35).
Examples
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His priggishness made it difficult for him to connect with others who had different lifestyles.
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Hypersensitivity, priggishness: the complaints of her friends.
Fiction book (1995) -
But the former virtue can cross a line into rapacity, just as the latter can cross a line into priggishness.
Blog text (32) -
The teacher's priggishness was evident when she scolded the students for minor infractions.
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Her priggishness often led her to judge others harshly for choices that she deemed inappropriate.
Synonyms
12
6.3
An attitude of thinking you are better than others because of wealth or class
6
7.7
A way of acting like you are very important that annoys other people
3
9.9
Pretending to be morally better than others
2
7.7
Acting like you are more important or more educated than you really are
1
7.9
A way of acting that shows you think you are better than other people
1
9.9
To pretend to be morally better than other people
1
7.4
A way of behaving like you are better than other people because of money or class
1
7.7
Being very proper and formal in a way that feels stiff
1
8.1
A way of behaving that shows you think you are better than other people
1
7.4
Acting as if you are more important than other people
A habit of being too proper and easily offended by normal behavior
Behaving as if you are better than other people
Treating people as if they are less smart or important
Acting as if more important or better than other people
A way of acting as if one is better than other people
Antonyms
How Self-Righteous
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Priggishness comes from the simple word prig, an old English term for someone who acts 'too proper' or who thinks they are morally better than others, with the endings -ish and -ness that make it 'the quality of being' that way. So, priggishness means the annoying habit of behaving overly correct and self-important.