priggish

英 [ˈprɪɡɪʃ]

美 [ˈprɪɡɪʃ]

adj.  自命清高的; 一本正经的

BNC.35917 / COCA.41613

柯林斯词典

• 自命清高的；一本正经的
  If you describe someone aspriggish, you think that they are a prig.

英英释义

adj

• exaggeratedly proper
  1. my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts
  Synonym:primprissyprudishpuritanicalsquare-toedstraitlacedstrait-lacedstraightlacedstraight-lacedtight-lacedvictorian

双语例句

• They've been humiliated by the Son of God and the other priggish loyalist angels so they are pained, utterly humiliated.
  他们被上帝之子和其他，一本正经忠于上帝的天使们羞辱，他们备受羞辱，痛不欲生。
• She was wondering if she were not a cold, hard, priggish girl.
  她只是在琢磨，她是不是一个冷酷的、硬心肠的、自命不凡的女孩子。
• In his early 20s, bin Laden worked in the family business; he was a priggish young man who was also studying economics at a university.
  二十来岁的时候，他还是一个在大学里读经济学的本份的年轻人，就在家族企业里工作。
• There was a tiny, priggish, warning voice in my ears which in the tones of Collins told me it was seemly to hold back.
  我耳边响起一种微弱的，一本正经的，象科林斯的声音，警告我最好不要去。
• He is a priggish, domineering man.
  他是一个好为人师、唯我独尊的人。
• He was a priggish young man who was also studying economics at a university.
  同时在大学学习经济的他是一个自命不凡的年轻人。
• And only the most priggish today would argue that financial institutions are obliged to be fluffy.
  而如今也只有最自负的人才会认为金融机构理应施惠余人。
• A rather priggish young man.
  一个颇有点自命不凡的年轻人。
• I'm sick of your priggish little ways!
  我讨厌你那套拘泥古板的处世之道。