priggish

adjective

Definition of priggishnext
as in staid

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  1. staid
  2. prudish
  3. stuffy
  4. puritanical
  5. straitlaced
  6. Victorian
  7. prim
Adjective
  • For well over 50 years, Progressive Insurance has acted like an upstart in the largely staid world of insurance.
    Stephen Wunker, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Compared to the madness of other seasons from the Nineties, this was a rather staid one.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2024
Definition of staid
Adjective
  • The Comstock Act is a relic, not just of a more prudish era in American history, but of an age when the sort of individual rights that modern Americans take for granted effectively did not exist.
    Ian Millhiser, Vox, 27 May 2024
  • Emily, perhaps true to her prudish Adderall-y millennial type, is not especially flirty.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 16 Aug. 2024
Definition of prudish
Adjective
  • Bingo! Alivia's tantrum hack—to keep things lighthearted—is a simple one, but a great reminder that not everything has to be so stuffy.
    Tanay Howard, Parents, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Or maybe a stuffy, lackluster atmosphere puts a damper on the entire getaway.
    Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2024
Definition of stuffy
Adjective
  • Gein was born in 1906 to an alcoholic father and an allegedly fanatically puritanical mother, according to the MGM+ docuseries Psycho: The Lost Tapes of Ed Gein.
    Jordana Comiter, People.com, 23 Nov. 2024
  • Salman seems more inclined than his predecessor to appease the ultraconservative and puritanical Wahhabi clerical establishment and other conservative Islamist forces in the country.
    Richard Sokolsky, Foreign Affairs, 6 Jan. 2016
Definition of puritanical
Adjective
  • Garrison plays Trisha, Sam’s straitlaced sister who’s undergone major growth as well.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Even television, though, began to feel straitlaced.
    Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2024
Definition of straitlaced
Adjective
  • That was a play which, in the first act, dramatized this famous Victorian song.
    Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2024
  • In the spring, the storied hotel will complete a more than five-year, $550 million renovation, restoration and expansion on its sprawling 28 acres, extending its capacity to 938 guest rooms across the original Victorian building and four newer developments.
    Ingrid Schmidt, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Dec. 2024
Definition of Victorian
Adjective
  • The couple shares a son. 09 of 13 Alison Brie (Trudy Campbell) Community star Alison Brie played Pete’s wife, prim and proper daddy’s girl Trudy.
    Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 23 Nov. 2024
  • Before each performance, the scene is set by a narrator who speaks in a prim, puritanical accent reminiscent of a bygone era.
    Sonaiya Kelley, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2024
Definition of prim
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