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Перевод: priggish speek priggish


[прилагательное]
педантичный; самодовольный


Тезаурус:

  1. Lonsdale's ladies are by no means all aristocrats or the daughters of schoolmasters and clergymen; they include washerwomen, milkwomen and servant girls; the disreputable and the priggish, the contented spinster and the erring Duchess; loving wives, bluestockings, governesses, actresses and invalids are all represented.
  2. This is a play in which the priggish young hide their emotions while their elders give themselves up to extremes of passion.
  3. No need to sound priggish though.
  4. It's been an odd kind of fulfilment; and it has quite knocked on the head all the priggish ideas I may have had, and given me a sense of values.
  5. "The personality conveyed by the utterances which are put into her mouth is that of a priggish schoolgirl, captain of the hockey team, a prefect and a recent candidate for confirmation."
  6. The reactive character of such arguments can make western feminism priggish, rather than liberating.
  7. Suddenly Kelly's objections seemed priggish and defensive.
  8. It sounds smug and priggish, but the change all round, myself included, is, I believe, for the better.
  9. Her challenge is, in itself, almost cruelly witty, and Rosaline must be seen to relish the situation, rather than becoming priggish.
  10. The Lady of Light is not a "goody goody" saintly child, irritatingly priggish.
  11. Even the would-be socially superior, the boastful, and the priggish may be found to be quite agreeable people once they have relaxed.
  12. I'm being priggish.
  13. Or, a little later, "Michael sharp-faced, slightly priggish, friendly".

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