Crossword-Solution: PRIGGISH
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Priggish | a. | Like a prig; conceited; pragmatical. |
We have 16 clues for the answer “PRIGGISH”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Annoyingly proper | 1 answer |
| Insufferably superior. | 1 answer |
| Overmodest | 3 answers |
| Like a bluenose | 3 answers |
| Self righteous | 4 answers |
| Goody-goody | 10 answers |
| Victorian | 13 answers |
| Sanctimonious | 14 answers |
| Strait-laced | 15 answers |
| Muley | 18 answers |
| prim | 25 answers |
| Perfectionist | 40 answers |
| Pedant | 45 answers |
| Stuffy | 50 answers |
| Obdurate | 66 answers |
| Obstinate | 82 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PRIGGISH (5)
But a fear crosses me, lest, by telling so much about my friend, I should lead people to mistake him for one of those consequential, priggish little monsters, who are always trying to say clever things, and looking to see whether people appreciate them.
Nobody but obsequious politicians and priggish "Daughters" wants to make them out as models of virtue and conformity.
One shudders to think what would have been the effect on poor Marie Antoinette’s priggish mentor could she have foreseen her granddaughter, clad in knickerbockers, running a petroleum tricycle in the streets of Paris, or pedalling “tandem” across country behind some young cavalry officer of her connection.
Was that her son? Was it that little priggish, insignificant fellow that she had made a god of? He was dull, commonplace! Satisfied to sit dumb in the background and take orders from those bourgeois French Jews! The play went on, but she saw nothing but George and his wife.
London! I came up to it, young and without advisers, rather priggish, rather dangerously open-minded and very open-eyed, and with something—it is, I think, the common gift of imaginative youth, and I claim it unblushingly—fine in me, finer than the world and seeking fine responses.
Quotes with PRIGGISH (3)
His diaries had begun to assume something of the knowingness of incipient middle age; at times, indeed, he was in danger of becoming priggish and opinionated. As with many later European voyagers, travel in this part of the world, far from broadening the mind, seemed instead to lead to a blanket distrust of anyone of a different creed, colour or class.
He can be made to take a positive pleasure in the perception that the two sides of his life are inconsistent... by exploiting his vanity. He can... enjoy kneeling beside the grocer on Sunday just because he remembers that the grocer could not possibly understand the urbane and mocking world which he inhabited on Saturday evening; and contrariwise, to enjoy the bawdy and blasphemy over the coffee with these admirable friends all the more because he is aware of a "deeper," "spi…
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1952–2008).