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Synonyms for priggish
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Princeton's WordNet
priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian(adj)
exaggeratedly proper
"my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
Synonyms:
blue(a), mincing, straitlaced, prissy, squeamish, overnice, dainty, puritanical, straightlaced, prudish, strait-laced, tight-laced, nice, straight-laced, squared-toe, niminy-piminy, victorian, prim, puritanic, twee, square-toedAntonyms:
improper
Wiktionary
priggish(adjective)
Like a prig.
Synonyms:
prudish, prissy, prim, puritanical
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
priggish
Synonyms:
coxcombical, dandified, foppish, affected, prim, conceitedAntonyms:
plain, sensible, unaffected, simple-minded, simple-mannered
Dictionary of English Synonymes
priggish(a.)
Synonyms:
conceited, pert, saucy, coxcomical
Words popularity by usage frequency
| ranking | word | |
|---|---|---|
| #1157 | nice | |
| #3153 | affected | |
| #6856 | victorian | |
| #33359 | prim | |
| #42465 | dainty | |
| #59849 | twee | |
| #67211 | conceited | |
| #87865 | squeamish | |
| #92958 | prissy | |
| #108246 | puritanical | |
| #108620 | mincing | |
| #142690 | prudish | |
| #246874 | foppish | |
| #302146 | priggish |
How to use priggish in a sentence?
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.
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