- Altrincham's
accusation in 1957 that her
speeches sounded like
those of a "
priggish schoolgirl" was an
extremely rare criticism. In the late 1960s, attempts...
- E.
Ornstein has
carefully detailed the
characteristics of Malvolio's
priggishness:
Those who do not
enjoy Malvolio would reduce him to a
conventional killjoy...
- her
disapproval of the theatricals,
finding her "
priggish, p****ive,
naive and hard to like".
Priggishness has been a
longstanding criticism of Austen's heroine...
- Josiah, the
biblical king who destro**** the
idols of Baal. He
could be
priggish in his anti-Catholicism and once
asked Catherine Parr to
persuade Lady...
- Tannenbaum, Rob (August 5, 2019). "Joan Baez on 3 Days of
Pregnancy and
Priggishness at Woodstock". The New York Times.
Archived from the
original on January...
-
found the
local people very
friendly and
helpful and
stated ("somewhat
priggishly" she admitted) "...the
flouting by all of and
sundry of
whatever regulations...
- and
Commonwealth court. He also
likened the Queen's
voice to that of "a
priggish schoolgirl". He was
slapped across the face by a man in public, and was...
-
Voyage of the Dawn
Treader sees
Edmund and Lucy Pevensie,
along with
their priggish cousin,
Eustace Scrubb,
return to Narnia,
three Narnian years (and one...
- Power, Ed (9
December 2017). "The Crown,
season 2,
episode 5 review: the '
priggish'
Queen comes under media attack". The Telegraph.
Retrieved 9
December 2017...
-
Hillary [sic]
Mantels of 21st-century Britain,
Catholicism is retrograde,
priggish, obsessive, fanatical, and, well, un-English." The book
continued to receive...
