Translations for „priggish“ in the English » Russian Dictionary

priggish [ˈprɪgɪʃ] ADJ pej

priggish

педанти́чный

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English

And maybe show his priggish brother how you hunt a vicious white walker rather than sweet little deer.

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I can envisage myself as having become a priggish headmistress.

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He is priggish and repressed and arrogant.

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This is emotive and priggish; it aims to provoke a gaffe instead of soliciting an insight.

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She is prudish, priggish and painfully self-conscious.

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Or was it two parents exercising their right to lightly mock their priggish offspring and set him right about the ways of the imperfect world?

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Apparently the great and the good don't like it when comedy is censored by priggish undergrads.

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This is a beautiful mixture of pride, ambition, an almost priggish sense of justice and yet the saving grace of the character an ironic self-awareness.

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The left and right can be equally priggish in this.

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Sadly, however, my views are quite possibly regarded by other expats as not only trite, but priggish.

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