Synonyms for priggish
prig·gish

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1. priggishadjective

   Like a prig.

   Synonyms:
   puritanical, prudish, prissy, prim

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1. priggish

   Synonyms:
   coxcombical, dandified, foppish, affected, prim, conceited

   Antonyms:
   plain, sensible, unaffected, simple-minded, simple-mannered

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1. priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorianadjective

   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-toed

   Antonyms:
   improper

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1. priggishadjective

   Synonyms:
   conceited, pert, saucy, coxcomical

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1. George Sand:

   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.