(1) But the nickname implies a priggishness I don't detect.
(2) The reticent, pious, even priggish character was too alien, possibly repellant, for the writer and director of the 1999 film version, Patricia Rozema, who drew on Austen's letters to fabricate another creature altogether.
(3) In his heyday as president of Tanzania - which he ruled from 1961 to 1985 - Julius Nyerere, who has died from leukaemia aged 77, was lion- ised by the liberal left of the world for his impassioned advocacy of his style of African socialism, but mauled by his critics as a priggish autocrat, whose idealism failed to deliver prosperity to his people.
(4) Read's austere outlook has been variously characterised – by friends as much as anyone – as "snobbish", "priggish" and "too obviously born to the purple".
(5) I worked with Brian Cathcart when he was a priggish, lower-middle manager on the Independent on Sunday .
(6) It's also why Labour is being so insufferably priggish about it.
(7) The central character has often been criticised as being merely functional, but it seems to me that Nicholas is very close to a portrait of the artist as a young man: his passion, impulsiveness, somewhat exaggerated notions of gallantry, occasional priggishness and big embracing spirit are so much shared with his author (who at this stage of his life frequently had to take to horseback in order to work off his undischarged surplus of élan vital) that reading the book puts us in very close proximity to the young Dickens.
(8) A shudder will go round the super-pricey London streets of St John's Wood - 14th crappiest and apparently the home of "herds of oversized jeeps" - while Winchester, only four places from the uncoveted top spot, is dismissed for "broken bottle violence on Friday nights" and the "priggish complacency of its inhabitants".
(9) In short (well, short by my standards), the content of his viral triumph is wearily predictable Oxford Union stuff and the tone is horribly priggish.
Prissy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Surely the whole point of The Heat's dynamic in the first place is that Sandra Bullock's character is skinny and prissy and uptight and Melissa McCarthy's character is bigger and bolshier and her diametric opposite?
(2) In 12 Years a Slave, however, this reassuring cliche is overthrown, and the relationship between Mistress Epps (Sarah Paulson) and Patsey (Lupita Nyong'o) makes a mockery of the one between Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) and Prissy (Butterfly McQueen).
(3) He was a Christ-like hobo in Whistle Down The Wind (1961), a draughtsman forced into a shotgun marriage in A Kind Of Loving (1962), a prissy, poetry-reading Englishman in Zorba The Greek (1964), a Bathsheba-adoring shepherd in John Schlesinger's underrated Far From The Madding Crowd (1967).
(4) One in Streatham, a rather prissy one where men weren't allowed to come in [there is a whole section in CIAB on landladies, the horror of].
(5) Poor Mitchell: women – soft, pretty little things – are simply not tough enough for positions of power, and he for one is sick of pandering to their prissy ways.
(6) Cruttenden is a softer soul than Williams, and a heterosexual father-of-two, but he’s afflicted with delicately prissy tones and an impeccably middle-class background, and he mines both to great effect in his accessible, gag-heavy stand-up.
(7) A separate Ifop poll showed 77% of French voters considered the affair between Hollande and actress Julie Gayet – it seems almost prissy to write alleged since neither party has denied it – to be a private matter.
(8) In short, Esther is prissy and meek; hardly an up-to-date feminist role model.
(9) For all that Lily and Linda are strong, Johnson paints himself as over-protected and prissy – a far cry from the chirpy cockney he is usually portrayed as.
(10) Floyd's performances, on or near the stove, were a refreshing departure from the prissy, controlled style then in favour at the BBC, or the alternative mode of half an hour with a French chef whose incomprehensible English made the recipes a mystery.