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Adjective: priggish  pri-gish
  1. Exaggeratedly proper
    "my priggish Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts";
    - prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed [archaic], straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian, bluenosed [US, informal], uptight [informal]

See also: proper

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