Usually means: Excessive propriety; smug moralism display.
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  1. priggery: Merriam-Webster
  2. priggery: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. priggery: Collins English Dictionary
  4. priggery: Wordnik
  5. priggery: Wiktionary
  6. priggery: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Priggery, priggery: Dictionary.com
  8. Priggery: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. priggery: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Priggery: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. priggery: FreeDictionary.org
  12. Priggery: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. priggery: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (priggery)

▸ noun:  (dated) Thievery or roguery.
▸ noun:  Priggishness.

Similar:
priggism, swindlery, roguery, skuggery, thugduggery, roguedom, roguehood, filchery, rooking, chicanery, more...

Opposite:
unpretentiousness, modesty, humility

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Similar:
priggism, swindlery, roguery, skuggery, thugduggery, roguedom, roguehood, filchery, rooking, chicanery, more...

Opposite:
unpretentiousness, modesty, humility



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