Priggish - English meaning

adjective

Overfond of making moral judgements about others' behaviour; too ready to moralize.

Usage examples:

A moralistic stance on advertising

adjective

Involved with judging other people’s morals and telling them how to behave

Usage examples:

American foreign policy had been rigidly moralistic.

adjective

Feeling or showing disapproval of anything regarded as improper; stiffly correct.

Usage examples:

A very prim and proper lady

verb

Purse (the mouth or lips) into a prim expression.

Usage examples:

Laurie primmed up his mouth

adjective

Fussily and excessively respectable.

Usage examples:

A middle-class family with two prissy children

adjective

Having or revealing a tendency to be easily shocked by matters relating to sex or nudity; excessively concerned with sexual propriety.

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The prudish moral climate of the late 19th century

adjective

Easily shocked by rude things, especially anything relating to sex

Usage examples:

I don't consider myself prudish but i do think the sex scenes in the film were a bit excessive.

adjective

Having or displaying a very strict or censorious moral attitude towards self-indulgence or sex.

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His puritanical parents saw any kind of pleasure as the road to damnation

adjective

Making a show of being morally superior to other people.

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What happened to all the sanctimonious talk about putting his family first?

adjective

Behaving like a schoolmarm

Usage examples:

Stop being so schoolmarmish and bossy.

adjective

Having characteristics commonly associated with schoolmistresses, especially those of formality and briskness.

Usage examples:

Her crisp, rather schoolmistressy manner

adjective

Believing that you are better and more moral than other people, often expressed in an annoying or offensive way

Usage examples:

Spare us from your self-righteous nonsense.

adjective

Given to moralizing in a pompous or affected manner.

Usage examples:

He tried to encourage his men with sententious rhetoric

adjective

Trying to appear wise, intelligent, and important, in a way that is annoying

Usage examples:

The document was sententious and pompous.

adjective

Having or showing an excessive pride in oneself or one's achievements.

Usage examples:

He was feeling smug after his win

adjective

(of food or diet) containing a lot of starch.

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Sugary and starchy foods

adjective

Having old-fashioned and unchanging morals, especially relating to sexual matters

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The joke shocked her strait-laced parents.

adjective

(of a place) lacking fresh air or ventilation.

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A stuffy, overcrowded office

adjective

Formal, boring, and not modern

Usage examples:

A stuffy, arrogant man, the office gets so stuffy in the afternoon.

adjective

Relating to the reign of queen victoria.

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A victorian house

noun

A person who lived during the victorian period.

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The victorians had a passion for documenting, cataloguing and classifying the world around them

noun

A person from the australian state of victoria.

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The facility has taught thousands of victorians to use the internet