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PRIGGISHNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does priggishness mean?
• PRIGGISHNESS (noun)
The noun PRIGGISHNESS has 1 sense:
1. exaggerated and arrogant properness
Familiarity information: PRIGGISHNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Exaggerated and arrogant properness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
priggishness; primness
Hypernyms ("priggishness" is a kind of...):
correctitude; properness; propriety (correct or appropriate behavior)
Derivation:
priggish (exaggeratedly proper)
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