priggishness
- n exaggerated and arrogant properness
- Both works insistently celebrate high moral courage, Christ on the Mount of Olives to the degree of priggishness relieved by passages of very human despair.
- Later they meet, there is promise of love's renewal, but circumstances and her lover's priggishness intervene.
- So is the Soviet's seductive charm in comparison with his American colleague's priggishness.