" Su Dongpo opens old monk fun of purpose, installing priggish appearance to say: " falling to encounter one difficult problem now, come to especially presbyterial consult. 苏东坡有意开老和尚玩笑,装着一本正经的样子说:「在下今日碰到一难题,特来向长老请教。」
A far less canny operator than his father, the priggish Charles I was widely seen to be trampling over ancient English liberties.
严肃正经的查理一世远没有他的父亲那么精明,人们普遍认为查理一世践踏了古代英国的自由。
Frasier
I'm sorry it may sound priggish, but I have grown comfortable with this part of myself.
但我已经习惯并接受了这样的我,我 就是我的奇迹。
自深深处
From pert telegrams to priggish lawyer's letters was a natural progress and the result of your lawyer's letters to your father was, of course, to urge him on still further.
I went there uncertainly, for it was foreign ground, and there was a tiny, priggish warning voice in my ear which, in the tones of Collins, told me it was seemingly to hold back.
Loving him not at all she grew sorry for him and kissed him sentimentally one night because he was so charming, a relic of a vanishing generation which lived a priggish and graceful illusion and was being replaced by less gallant fools.
A prig (/ˈprɪɡ/), sometimes spelled prigg, is a person who shows an inordinately zealous approach to matters of form and propriety—especially where the prig has the ability to show superior knowledge to those who do not know the protocol in question. They see little need to consider the feelings or intentions of others, relying instead on established order and rigid rules to resolve all questions.