Crossword-Solution: PRIGGERY 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 15

The charge of "priggery" was added to the charge of "pacifism." On these two lines the opposition developed and ultimately triumphed.

But, as the preceding narrative will have shown, the greater our success, the greater became their irritation, when success was labelled "pacifism" and "priggery." Without intending it, we had played "Pied Piper" upon some of the best of the house masters' foster children.

Poor stuff enough, very likely, they talked, those long-haired, loose-collared Romanticists of the Hôtel Pimodan and the literary cafés recorded by Balzac, _Jeunes Frances_, or whatever their names; and priggery, as well as blood-and-thunder, those lads round the table d'hôte at Strasburg, where Jung-Stilling noticed the entrance of a certain tall, Apolline young man answering to the name of Goethe.

They are commended by a certain dapper shrewdness of observation and an almost witty priggery, not by any real beauty or deep feeling.

The matter died away, leaving only the impression of some unaccountable mistake or indetectible priggery, though probably the presumption was against the woman, whose genius in this peculiar line of art was known to be able to find her advantage in a mystery through which the most practised eye of official vision could see nothing.