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priggish

/ˈprɪɡ.ɪʃ/

Traducción: Describe a una persona excesivamente preocupada por el comportamiento correcto y que presume de su superioridad moral sobre los demás, mostrándose rígida o mojigata.

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Conexiones de la palabra

adjective

/ˈprɪɡ.ɪʃ/C2formal
  • esDescribe a una persona excesivamente preocupada por el comportamiento correcto y que presume de su superioridad moral sobre los demás, mostrándose rígida o mojigata.

Describes a person who is excessively concerned with behaving correctly and showing that they are morally superior to others.

  1. Excessively proper or self-righteousC1formal

    Behaving in a way that shows exaggerated propriety, moral superiority, or strict adherence to rules.

    esRemilgado o mojigato

    • His priggish attitude annoyed his classmates.
    • She gave a priggish lecture about the importance of punctuality.
    • The priggish critic dismissed the film as vulgar.

    Sinónimosgoody-goodyholier-than-thouprimprudishpuritanicalsanctimoniousself-righteoussmugstrait-lacedstuffy

Formas
  • more priggish comparative form
  • most priggish superlative form
Vocab Bloom Hub English dataset · 0.3.1

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Vocabulary data from the Vocab Bloom Hub English dataset (CC BY 4.0), https://huggingface.co/datasets/Fristail27/vocab-bloom-hub-en

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