Sentence examples for the priggish found from inspiring English sources

Churchmen and the priggish found them offensive.

Lee Miller had the psychotic, barbaric edge over Cumberbatch as the Creature, whereas Cumberbatch found added depth and tart humour in the priggish scientist, a role more suited to his distinctive intellectual talent.

Married to a priggish businessman, the heroine finds herself miraculously rejuvenated when she takes a vacation (preferably with a group of wisecracking girlfriends) to a Mediterranean port.

Armie Hammer plays John Reid, the priggish young lawyer turned masked avenger.

The redoubtable comic actress Dana Ivey gives a savory performance as the priggish Miss Prism, Cecily's tutor.

O'Casey's lampooning of the priggish stupidity of army officers and the indifference of a surgeon can be lead-footed.

But the thought of catching the priggish Mr. West on gay.com was hard to resist.

A decade before he was Brody, Mr. Lewis was Soames Forsyte, the priggish Victorian businessman at the heart of "The Forsyte Saga".

"I, Malvolio," a one-man show featuring a comic and emotionally charged rant by the priggish manservant Malvolio from Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," is scheduled to run Jan.

The priggish 1950s, which erased the liberated flappers of the Jazz Age from cultural memory, were simply a return to the norm.

Mr. Rylance's fellow British actor Stephen Fry ("Wilde," "Blackadder") will make his Broadway debut in the "Twelfth Night" production, playing the priggish manservant Malvolio.