| 单词 | priggishness |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈpriggishness ˈpriggishness n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun] > affected propriety prudery1708 primness1713 priggery1743 priggism1753 prudishness1760 priggishness1768 missishness1839 missiness1857 prigdom1873 prudity1891 Comstockery1905 prighood1906 nice nellyism1933 prissiness1934 1768 Adventures Oxymel Classic I. ix. 83 At length the whole exercise of academical priggishness being performed, he vouchsafed to admonish the company very seriously on the folly and indecency of their behaviour. 1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 56/1 For the ‘compliment extern’ of Cockney priggishness and petty intellectual pretension, look at..Lord S——. 1989 J. Holmes & R. Lindley Values of Psychotherapy vi. 136 Psychotherapists are certainly not immune from priggishness or an overbearing conviction of their own rectitude. < as lemmas |
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