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Recent Examples of priggish
Ghaywan’s script is explicit but never priggish in its moral standing, letting the outstanding performances drive home the perils of bigotry more than any grandstanding dialogue.
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Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 25 Sep. 2025
Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 25 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for priggish
Adjective
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Lian is searching for a new home for her and her boyfriend, the staid Zhetai, while Wenyu is engaged to Thomas, a wealthy American with a tech job.—
Michael Schaub,
Oc Register,
22 Sep. 2025
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Characters archly comment on proceedings directly to camera at some points and retreat into the staid distance of historical drama at others, as passages of seemingly earnest melodrama crash abruptly into broad-brush contemporary satire.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
20 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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And then there’s Carrie, who is a heightened version of her lesser traits from SATC: prudish, private and lacking in humility.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
23 July 2025
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But Townsend Warner’s takedown of prudish Victorian morality is only getting started.—
B. Pietras
June 10,
Literary Hub,
10 June 2025
Adjective
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While this type of furniture can lend itself to a room feeling stiff and stuffy, The Douglas’ rooms feel lived in and inviting.—
Elliott Harrell,
Southern Living,
29 Sep. 2025
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Office chairs can so often feel stuffy and stiff, but in textured boucle?—
Audrey Lee,
Architectural Digest,
25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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In a strange puritanical gesture, the kiss was cut.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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This is where generalized odor anxiety intersects with the aforementioned puritanical squeamishness.—
Franklin Schneider,
The Atlantic,
16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The first one is a little more straitlaced and straightforward.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
11 July 2025
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Love focuses on two colleagues at an Oslo hospital — Marianne, a straight (and straitlaced) doctor, and Tor, a gay male nurse.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
13 June 2025
Adjective
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The Sherlock Holmes series adds a touch of Victorian charm with rich wood paneling, brass accents, and cozy reading nooks perfect for sleuthing through your own novels.—
Elizabeth Fogarty,
Better Homes & Gardens,
23 Aug. 2025
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In the 2001 episode shot above Times Square, the poet Michael Stipe sits regal in a Victorian skirt and peppers Automatic for the People and Reveal songs with a rant about George Bush’s nuclear energy policy.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
22 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The question is whether his oldest friendships, with both the prim Serge and the anxious people pleaser Yvan (Corden), will survive the wrath provoked by the great white rectangle.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
17 Sep. 2025
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However, the stakes have ever been only so high in this prim, proper and altogether charming world, so why change that now?—
Mark Meszoros,
Boston Herald,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Priggish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/priggish. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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