As a child, and always throughout his life, he was absolutely free from any touch of priggishness or precocious piety.
There was never the smallest touch of affectation or priggishness about his attitude, and he had none of the cautious and uneasy reverence which is apt to overshadow men of piety.
But it was not mere priggishness that animated him.
Because Martin was treading the path of knowledge alone he was driven by sheer force of necessity into intellectual priggishness and crudity.
The priggishness comes in when you begin to compare yourself with others, and to draw distinctions.
After all, priggishness is often little more than a failure in tact, a breach of good manners; it is priggish to be superior, and it is vulgar to let a consciousness of superiority escape you.
Who would have thought that narrowness and priggishness could rub off on a person's mind like that!
Priggishness was almost unknown among the Greeks--though one may suspect its presence among those Spartans who have told so few tales of themselves.
Priggishness cannot be eradicated from the system in a moment, even by the most heroic measures.
Priggishness is an artificial mental condition that is far more common than people generally suspect.
And be it noted that she spoke with no sense of priggishness or superiority, but rather with the air of one to whom the more formal events of life inevitably appealed.
Priggishness is the sin which doth most easily beset middle-class and so-called educated Englishmen: we call it purity and culture, but it does not much matter what we call it.
I will not say that priggishness is absolutely unknown among the North Italians; sometimes one comes upon a young Italian who wants to learn German, but not often.
It is an atmosphere impregnated with priggishness and a sense of superiority.
There is nothing in this of priggishness or unreality.
He was a Victorian in the bad as well as the good sense; he could not keep priggishness out of long poems.
He had all the elaboratepriggishness of a young man fresh from college, and was more bent on making an impression than on pleasing.
He had reason to be proud of himself; and really, putting aside a certain priggishness of manner and affectation of style, he was not such a very bad fellow.
I was always peculiarly sensitive about priggishness in those who professed themselves to be religious openly, and generally thought I detectedpriggishness in any "Bible circle" or similar institution that I came across.
Priggishness The essence of priggishness is setting up to be better than one's neighbour.
There is often a certain priggishness and pride in things foreign in saying, 'I am a Christian.
This enclosed him in himself to a dangerous degree, bordered him on priggishness and on egoism.
Not one bleat of priggishness is heard in all his intricate censure of the eminent British statesmen who sapped the Union.
He weighed the cold uningratiating virtues of priggishnessagainst his smouldering passion for Amanda, and against his obstinate sympathy for Prothero's grossness and his mother's personal pride, and he made his choice.
He made no written note of his heartaches, but he made several memoranda about priggishness that White read and came near to understanding.
It was in consequence of that regret and his controversies with Prothero while they travelled together in China that his concern about what he called priggishness arose.
He fled frompriggishness and the terror of such sublimity alike to Prothero.
What I rather wish to do is to make a plea for greater simplicity in the matter, and to try and destroy some of the terrible priggishness in the matter of athletics, which appears to me to prevail.
After all, athletics are only one form of leisurely amusement; and I maintain that it is of the essence of priggishness to import solemnity into a matter which does not need it, and which would be better without it.
Charles Dilke used to say that Fawcett and Warr had between them cured him of that priggishnesswhich he often recalled with amusement.
He shed hispriggishness once and for all somewhere on the "Great Divide.
Priggishness is the sin which doth most easily beset middle-class, and so- called educated Englishmen; we call it purity and culture, but it does not much matter what we call it.
And if we teach them to judge and criticise freely, are they not very likely to develop priggishness that will result in immodesty and disrespect for others?
If these precautions be taken, the danger of priggishness is reduced to the minimum.
What about the threatened priggishnessand related evils that may result when the responsibility for passing judgment frequently is laid upon children?
Self-reliance is the more common name for similar independence among children; and it is no more nearly related to priggishness in their case than in the case of adults.
