priggishness

Those saints at least score one success: Perfection of their priggishness!

The whole incident was entirely due to my priggishness and lack of manners."

Mr. Simpson said he was only seeking to puncture "priggishness."

They now had an air of priggishness.

In America, prurience and priggishness have always danced in tandem.

But while this fiscal priggishness is understandable, you have no moral duty to play along (legal constraints notwithstanding).

Aspiration and acquisition are abandoned for a priggishness that basks in its own complacency.

He felt mired in priggishness, and Lovita's dimple did not help him.

Pygmalion - an antique poetic conception - is reduced here to snobbishness and priggishness.

Hypersensitivity, priggishness: the complaints of her friends.

Mr. Sutcliffe has a fine, wistful tenor, though his priggishness could use more shading.

She could title it Pride and Priggishness."

This is not priggishness.

He objected to the educational methods at school, as well as he was against priggishness and prudery of the teachers.

Possessed by demons, she threw herself into battle against disease, male priggishness and her own despair about ever being able to accomplish her goals.

Her priggishness.

He was thoroughly broadminded and interested in current events, with a keen eye for humbug and priggishness.

The priggishness of those who refuse to make the effort is satirized in "Maple Leaf Rag."

What compels the lawyerly approach is not priggishness on the part of the Times (well, not entirely) but limitations of space.

Gedge's resentment of priggishness would seem to have its configuration in the outlandishly dressed Duane.

Geoffrey, conscience-stricken into priggishness, wished to tell her that she would do well to marry Owen Davies, and found the matter hard.

Mr. Tower said the Senator suffered from blind ambition, timidity, inexperience and priggishness.

George's priggishness and legalistic narrowness should make him insufferable, and often do, but he's never only insufferable.

(Of course she remains a sympathetic figure, just as he - of course - avoids priggishness.)

His exaltation is self-centred, is priggishness, his fall is unrestrained by any exterior obligation.