priggery

1 古板

precise stuffy starchy prim starched buckram ceremonious fusty fogy fuddy-duddy starchily starch starchiness square-toed

2 自命不凡

pretentious chesty portentous priggish highflying self-glorification highbrowism

3 沾沾自喜

smug priggism pat oneself on the back grandiose gloat grandiosity

4 自负

high-swelling high-headed swelled-headed vogie grand confident vain pretentious conceited snobby overconfident snobbish chesty portentous ditzy stuck-up egotistic overweening priggish bigheaded self-deceived self-conceited vainly arrogantly egotistically pride inflation ego self-esteem arrogance conceit pretension puffiness snobbery overconfidence egotism self-importance vainglory pretentiousness bighead self-conceit self-pride arrogancy amour-propre self-opinion conceitedness swell get above oneself full of oneself swelled head swollen head self-affected flatuous secure strut pragmatic pompous ostentatious boastful flatulent self-assertive self-opinionated vapouring thrasonical vauntingly priggism boast vanity perch sufficiency pragmatism self-love flatulence vaunt pomposity self-assertion tympany self-glorification flatulency vainness egotize bloat preen blow swollen cranium

5 一本正经

serious respectable solemn stuffy prim prudish serious-minded priggish mid-victorian priggism delicacy solemnity