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• s  exaggeratedly proper

• The rhetoric, called priggish by some, is not surprising for a guy who has built his career fighting Mob bosses, terrorists, drug lords and double-dealing public servants like .
• Vegetarian restaurants often suffer from a perception that they are, well, priggish more about political correctness than sensual gratification, and filled with the kind of .
• Maybe you're afraid of sounding judgmental, priggish or foolish.

• prim
• prissy
• prudish
• puritanical
• square-toed
• straitlaced
• strait-laced
• straightlaced
• straight-laced
• tight-laced
• victorian

News & Articles

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• Treasury Secretary Lew Cleans Up His Signature for the Nation's Currency
  Priggish patriots everywhere can breathe a sigh of relief: America's currency was spared Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew's loopy signature.
  June 18, 2013 - National Journal via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Sumner Redstone in Sydney Morning Herald
  Redstone's remarks were "priggish and pompous and inane", Redstone said, adding they could be the result of "horrendous" advice.
• Kurt Anderson in Sydney Morning Herald
  She comes across as "wooden, priggish, cold, too much superego, and too little id", said Andersen.