priggish

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It feels like a priggish country club at times.

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exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"

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adjective

exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for priggish.

adjective

exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"

Example sentences

It feels like a priggish country club at times.

But, they come willingly to be fleeced, being priggish.

Yes, that means systemd developers can be a bit priggish.

" Framed that way, it doesn't sound nearly so priggish--but I don't decide how it's framed, the public does.

To say that all of those reasons make people "priggish" or, worse, untrustworthy is just very silly.

A person of priggish or affected modesty> 2.

Just priggish former executives badmouthing the company that lifted them into the 1%.

> the dumbest, most priggish, humourless beaureucratsClearly you've never been to reddit...

The fact that it marries this kind of terrible behaviour with an almost priggish, "serious business", attitude does little to help.

Yep, dongle jokes in a conference audience--and priggish overreactions to them--are a serious issue for sure.

Actually, your priggish comment is way more of a buzz-kill in terms of what I expect / hope to find while browsing HN than the spontaneous demonstration of chain-reaction altruism evinced elsewhere in this thread.

Grundy":> Mrs Grundy is a figurative name for an extremely conventional or priggish person, a personification of the tyranny of conventional propriety.