priggishness

1 From an early age, Levi appears to have possessed many of the qualities of his later prose—meticulousness, curiosity, furious discretion, orderliness to the point of priggishness.

2 But I am not sure that Johnnie Maddison might not have been nicer if he had escaped a suspicion of priggishness and lost a trifle now and then at progressive whist.

3 The phrase hardly needs explanation; it corresponds somewhat to what the French mean by intellectuel, but with an additional touch of moral priggishness which exactly suits Sumner.

4 In my essay the evil shape was a vision of "Science" in the form of abstraction, priggishness and sawdust, lording it over all.

5 Before literary England had quite recovered from its surfeit of Victorian priggishness and pre-Raphaelite delicacy, Kipling came along with high spirits and a great tide of life, sweeping all before him.

6 Barbara's priggishness always put her into a temper, because she felt it, unconsciously, to be a reflection on her own infallibility as the eldest.

7 There is no denying that in the hands of a cold and mechanical person this production will display some priggishness and false propriety.

8 No moral priggishness dried up the tenderness with which he regarded the most forlorn specimens of humanity.

9 She said, "That Flora tries to take you on the prig again, you tell me-will you?"

她说：“要是弗洛拉再带你去偷东西，你就告诉我，知道么？”

10 Both advertised themselves as emblems of the sexual revolution, an escape from American priggishness and wider social intolerance.

11 I’d give anything to catch him out in anything that wasn’t quite square, just to pay him out for his sickening priggishness.

12 The scene emphasizes the critic’s priggishness and the publisher’s stubborn indifference to language.

13 That is the essence of priggishness, to feel that our reasons are better, our motives purer, than the reasons of other people, and that we have the privilege of setting a standard.

14 Her priggishness was so unconscious—so sincere, if one may say so—that it staggered me.

15 The dirt and shabbiness and lack of plan and good humour and crime and indecency and priggishness—its life!

16 One hopes her taste for the work of Thornhill had not entirely lapsed by then—as her youthful priggishness had abated into the wise compassion, ironic humor, and psychological perceptiveness that characterize her novels.

17 Lampooning sexual mores, revealing racism and mocking priggishness, Oz incited fusty establishment elders in Australia and London and provoked what was, at the time, Britain’s longest and possibly most colorful obscenity trial.

18 They had tacitly ignored it, and yet there had not been the least priggishness about the relationship.

19 He was consequential, dogmatic, and with all the self-asserting priggishness of young Oxford fresh upon him.

20 Add more verbosity, and a strong extract of priggishness.

1 自命不凡

pretentious stuck-up priggish swollen-headed importantly pompously pretentiously self-glorification

2 自以为高人一等

patronizingly

3 一本正经

dry serious solemn prim serious-minded priggish solemnity in dead earnest in deadly earnest in good earnest in real earnest