priggish

1 Clay and Jackson despised one another, and Clay told a friend that as between “the two evils,” he preferred the priggish and self-righteous Adams to the militaristic and perhaps demagogic Jackson.

2 It focuses on a narcissistic social media addict who is given a Pygmalion makeover by a somewhat priggish branding whiz.

3 Before that hospital goes up, Willie is fatally shot by the priggish and somewhat self-deluded romantic who happens to be the famous physician picked to run the place.

4 He was “owning the libs” — hoisting them, as his supporters saw it, on their own petard of priggish propriety.

5 According to Nameberry.com, Nigella was a name that "sounded unthinkably priggish" until it became attached to Ms Lawson who "gave it a big dollop of glamour".

6 And the Late Tang Form secluded poets had a great priggish and lonely spirit that became a symbol of noble quality in the Song Dynasty and later periods.

而且，晚唐体隐逸诗人孤高傲世的绝世风神甚至成了宋代乃至后来人们心目中品质高洁的象征。

7 In chapter 36, Lucy arrives at the home of a priggish parson, whose wife is desperately ill with typhoid.

8 The 21st century has been a boon to young abstainers who reject the word alcoholic, and to anyone who wants to quit drinking without becoming a sad sack or a prig.

9 To write about a decent hero in a book like this, you've got to understand this: the children reading this don't want a priggish holier-than-thou kind of character.

10 Lonely, priggish Mrs. Griffiths gets roaring drunk after a keen disappointment.

11 Clearly then, it is to the ideas embodied in this book, and not to its often powerful depiction of a priggish, proud and desolatingly lonely personality, that she wishes us to respond.

12 Is she, underneath it all, a priggish moralist using virtuous claims as a cloak for manipulation?

13 She not only faces social ostracisim in rural Surrey, but has to compete with her priggish stepdaughter, Ellean, for her husband's love.

14 Fordham University, the Jesuit institution in New York, claims to have blessed the team with its name, thanks to some priggish divines at the school.

15 Rather than smart, they are smarty-pants: smug, priggish and set up for a pratfall.

16 Many of the comments about me have gendered overtones, referring to me as “priggish” or “that woman”, or telling me to “stick with flower-arranging”.

17 But when public health and safety are at stake, this standard becomes priggish.

18 He’s not a priggish bootstrapper but a plucky bon vivant who does his work with a smile, always “on the alert for business.”

19 This priggish behavior will not end not by a longshot.

20 Armie Hammer plays John Reid, the priggish young lawyer turned masked avenger.

1 死板的

muscle-bound punctilious booksy hidebound

2 自负

high-swelling high-headed swelled-headed vogie grand confident vain pretentious conceited snobby overconfident snobbish chesty portentous ditzy stuck-up egotistic overweening 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 priggery conceitedness swell get above oneself full of oneself swelled head swollen head high big arrogant self-sufficient smug cocky self-important hincty side stomach self-confidence sufficiency flatulence pedantry fanfaronade bloat plume pique with a superior air be full of oneself pique oneself upon self-affected flatuous secure strut pragmatic pompous ostentatious boastful flatulent self-assertive self-opinionated vapouring thrasonical vauntingly priggism boast vanity perch pragmatism self-love vaunt pomposity self-assertion tympany self-glorification flatulency vainness egotize preen blow swollen cranium cock-a-hoop vauntful self-opinioned huffish cockish assuming puffy stuffy overblown swanky pontifical vaunted self-assured cocksure high-blown vaunty toplofty biggety overconfidently self-trust self-assumption security wind confidence superior egoism self-assurance self-worth self-admiration self-glory huff high-hat think penny silver be above oneself

3 死板

muscle-bound punctilious booksy punctilio hidebound priggism

4 作态

frill

5 自命不凡的

pretentious stuck-up swollen-headed chesty portentous highflying important grand swelling pompous sophomoric highfalutin self-glorifying upstage and county

6 古板的

ikky icky-poo suburban lame stuffy icky prim squaresville square-toed

7 古板

ikky icky-poo suburban lame stuffy icky prim squaresville square-toed

8 自命不凡

pretentious stuck-up swollen-headed importantly pompously pretentiously priggishness self-glorification chesty portentous highflying priggery highbrowism important grand swelling pompous sophomoric highfalutin self-glorifying self-assumption consequence self-conceit self-admiration self-inflation upstage and county feel oats

9 自负的

high-swelling high-headed swelled-headed vogie grand confident vain pretentious conceited snobby overconfident snobbish chesty portentous ditzy stuck-up egotistic overweening bigheaded self-deceived self-conceited full of oneself high big arrogant self-sufficient smug cocky self-important hincty self-affected flatuous secure strut pragmatic pompous ostentatious boastful flatulent self-assertive self-opinionated vapouring thrasonical cock-a-hoop vauntful self-opinioned huffish cockish assuming puffy stuffy overblown swanky pontifical vaunted self-assured cocksure high-blown vaunty toplofty biggety

10 道学先生

prig

11 骄傲的

supermanish big popular proud pride crank swollen lofty puffy cocky haughty ritzy chesty snippy hoity-toity uppish highflying high-hat swollen-headed highty-tighty toplofty cock-a-hoop proud hearted

12 一本正经

dry serious solemn prim serious-minded solemnity priggishness in dead earnest in deadly earnest in good earnest in real earnest in sober earnest respectable stuffy prudish mid-victorian priggism delicacy priggery somber prissy po-faced governessy unmirthful gravity

13 骄傲

supermanish big popular proud pride crank swollen lofty puffy cocky haughty ritzy chesty snippy hoity-toity uppish highflying high-hat swollen-headed highty-tighty toplofty vauntingly cock-a-hoop importance mickey swell inflate proud hearted

14 一本正经的

dry serious solemn prim serious-minded respectable stuffy prudish mid-victorian somber prissy po-faced governessy unmirthful