| Fortunately, the message couched within the narrative is neither excessively moralistic nor priggish. |
| Don't tell me Carmichael's case is much more serious, that's priggish and predictable. |
| That said, the text is often intractable or so annoyingly assertive as to appear priggish. |
| As a prodigal, Tom is forever annoying Sid, his priggish, elder half brother. |
| He had been very careful not to buy anything too priggish, and flattered himself to say he had done a good job with it. |
| I think it would be bootless, and, moreover — this is going to sound priggish, but I believe it — inappropriate. |
