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Перевод: priggishness

[существительное]
педантичность ; самодовольство
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Тезаурус:

1. But to write as though the problem were one simply of petty snobbery and priggishness is, wilfully or not, to trivialize the argument, and not to hear the voices.
2. Gedge's resentment of priggishness would seem to have its configuration in the outlandishly dressed Duane.
3. Aspiration and acquisition are abandoned for a priggishness that basks in its own complacency.
4. A young man without the priggishness that the Deputy Under Secretary believed he could identify in all Public School pupils, without the conceit of a Cambridge College.
5. Her priggishness.
6. But the petty snobbery and priggishness of which it is sometimes accused are in my view much less serious (and in any case demonstrably declining) than are two tendencies: the first, to make the curriculum and the public examination system a closed circuit; the second, to be increasingly concerned with training - in other words, to think of its pupil-product more and more as an instrument rather than as an end.
7. But without any of the religious priggishness