priggeries
/ˈprɪɡəriz/
noun
- Behaviors or attitudes that show someone is overly proper, self-righteous, or smug about their own correctness.
- Her constant priggeries about table manners made everyone feel uncomfortable at dinner.
- The teacher's priggeries annoyed the students, who felt she was more concerned with rules than with learning.
- His priggeries at the meeting, correcting everyone's grammar, did not win him any friends.
- Acts or statements that are annoyingly fussy or pedantic, especially about minor details.
- Their priggeries about the proper way to address an envelope seemed silly in the age of email.
- The editor's priggeries over punctuation delayed the book's publication by weeks.
- I can't stand the priggeries of people who complain about the way you fold a napkin.
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