Traductions de „priggish“ dans le dictionnaire anglais » portugais

priggish [ˈprɪgɪʃ] ADJ péj

priggish

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She is prudish, priggish and painfully self-conscious.

www.telegraph.co.uk

This is emotive and priggish; it aims to provoke a gaffe instead of soliciting an insight.

www.ft.com

This is a beautiful mixture of pride, ambition, an almost priggish sense of justice and yet the saving grace of the character an ironic self-awareness.

en.wikipedia.org

The left and right can be equally priggish in this.

www.smh.com.au

I can envisage myself as having become a priggish headmistress.

www.independent.co.uk

Apparently the great and the good don't like it when comedy is censored by priggish undergrads.

www.spiked-online.com

Sadly, however, my views are quite possibly regarded by other expats as not only trite, but priggish.

www.telegraph.co.uk

The priggish, boorish, pharisaical right raged against him, and he soldiered on.

www.salon.com

This is not only short-sighted, xenophobic and priggish.

www.dailymail.co.uk

In practically every variant of its mythology, there is the priggish authority figure that we are all out to shock.

thefederalist.com