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priggishness

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Variant of prig

noun

a person who is annoyingly smug in his or her moral behavior, attitudes, etc.
a person who is annoyingly fastidious about rules, small details, etc.

Origin: < 16th-c. cant < ?

Related Forms:

priggery noun or priggism
priggish adjective
priggishly adverb
priggishness noun

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