priggish

3 definitions found

priggish - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Priggish \Prig"gish\, a.
     Like a prig; conceited; pragmatical. -- Prig"gish*ly, adv.
     -- Prig"gish-ness, n.
     [1913 Webster]

priggish - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  priggish
      adj 1: exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't
             approve of my miniskirts" [syn: priggish, prim,
             prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed,
             straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced,
             straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian]

priggish - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  94 Moby Thesaurus words for "priggish":
     Quakerish, Victorian, abusive, blackening, blameful, censorious,
     choicy, choosy, condemnatory, condescending, conformist,
     conscientious, contemptuous, critical, damnatory, demure,
     denunciatory, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, derisive,
     discriminating, discriminative, disparaging, exacting, execrating,
     execrative, execratory, fastidious, formal, formalistic, fussy,
     goody-goody, hidebound, high-hat, invective, inveighing,
     judgmental, meticulous, mid-Victorian, narrow, nit-picking,
     objurgatory, old-maidish, overmodest, particular, patronizing,
     pedantic, perfectionistic, picky, precious, precise,
     precisianistic, prig, prim, prissy, prudish, punctilious, purist,
     puristic, puritanic, puritanical, reproachful, reprobative,
     reviling, ridiculing, sanctimonious, scoffing, scrupulous,
     selective, self-complacent, self-contented, self-esteeming,
     self-loving, self-righteous, self-satisfied, sensitive, severe,
     smug, sniffy, snippy, snobbish, snobby, snooty, snotty,
     stick-in-the-mud, stiff-necked, strait-laced, straitlaced, strict,
     stuffy, uptight, vilifying, vituperative