- E.
Ornstein has
carefully detailed the
characteristics of Malvolio's
priggishness:
Those who do not
enjoy Malvolio would reduce him to a
conventional killjoy...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
-
found the
local people very
friendly and
helpful and
stated ("somewhat
priggishly" she admitted) "...the
flouting by all of and
sundry of
whatever regulations...
-
called William Hague.
Peter said to
Norman St John-Stevas: 'If he is as
priggish and self-****ured as that at sixteen, what will he be like in
thirty years'...
-
Punch as "Codlingsby".
Disraeli left an
unfinished novel in
which the
priggish central character, Falconet, is
unmistakably a
caricature of Gladstone...
