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[syn: priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian]
The 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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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]
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