priggish als bijvoeglijk naamwoord: - 1
priggish
bijvoeglijk naamwoord
1 priggish
Exaggeratedly proper.
synoniemen: prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian ... meer laten zien.
Roget 855:
affected,
full of affectation,
pretentious,
pedantic,
stilted,
stagy,
theatrical,
big-sounding,
ad captandum;
canting,
insincere.
not natural,
unnatural;
self-conscious;
maniere;
artificial;
overwrought,
overdone,
overacted;
euphuist
etc.
577.
stiff,
starch,
formal,
prim,
smug,
demure,
tire a quatre epingles,
quakerish,
puritanical,
prudish,
pragmatical,
priggish,
conceited,
coxcomical,
foppish,
dandified;
finical,
finikin;
mincing,
simpering,
namby-pamby,
sentimental.
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Roget 880:
vain,
vain as a peacock,
proud as a peacock;
conceited,
overweening,
pert,
forward;
vainglorious,
high-flown;
ostentatious
etc.
882;
puffed up,
inflated,
flushed.
self-satisfied,
self-confident,
self-sufficient,
self-flattering,
self-admiring,
self-applauding,
self-glorious,
self-opinionated;
entente
etc.
(wrongheaded)
481;
wise in one's own conceit,
pragmatical†,
overwise†,
pretentious,
priggish;
egotistic,
egotistical;
soi-disant
etc.
(boastful)
884 [Fr.];
arrogant
etc.
885.
unabashed,
unblushing;
unconstrained,
unceremonious;
free and easy.
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Pools: pruderyjny
Moby betekeniswoordenboek: Quakerish, Victorian, abusive, blackening, blameful, censorious, choicy, choosy, condemnatory, condescending, conformist, conscientious, contemptuous, critical, damnatory, demure, denunciatory, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, derisive, discriminating, discriminative, disparaging, exacting, execrating, execrative, execratory, fastidious, formal, formalistic, fussy, goody-goody, hidebound, high-hat, invective, inveighing, judgmental, meticulous, mid-Victorian, narrow, nit-picking, objurgatory, old-maidish, overmodest, particular, patronizing, pedantic, perfectionistic, picky, precious, precise, precisianistic, prig, prim, prissy, prudish, punctilious, purist, puristic, puritanic, puritanical, reproachful, reprobative, reviling, ridiculing, sanctimonious, scoffing, scrupulous, selective, self-complacent, self-contented, self-esteeming, self-loving, self-righteous, self-satisfied, sensitive, severe, smug, sniffy, snippy, snobbish, snobby, snooty, snotty, stick-in-the-mud, stiff-necked, strait-laced, straitlaced, strict, stuffy, uptight, vilifying, vituperative ... meer laten zien.
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