Übersetzung für 'priggish' von Englisch nach Deutsch

priggish {adj} [snobbish]

eingebildet [snobistisch]

affektiert

priggish {adj} [pej.] [snobbish]

hochnäsig [ugs.] [pej.]

Werbung

priggish {adj}

selbstgefällig

moralinsauer [pej.] [auch hum.]

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priggish girl

Nockerl {n} [österr.] [dümmliches, eingebildetes Mädchen]

• Reviewers of "Melody Maker" expressed similar opinion: "It's simply a priggish plea for honesty set to the customary saccharin blather" and summarised that the song addressed "for those of us who still care enough to dream".
• To avoid being considered old-fashioned or priggish, she has managed to make her small but intimate circle of friends believe that she is carrying on with two men at the same time whereas in fact she is still a virgin and only enjoys her two male friends' company.
• The second half is a long essay on his upbringing and the development of his political conscience, which includes an argument for socialism (although he goes to lengths to balance the concerns and goals of socialism with the barriers it faced from the movement's own advocates at the time, such as "priggish" and "dull" socialist intellectuals and "proletarian" socialists with little grasp of the actual ideology).
• Chan, "a priggish mother of two and president of the parent group Two Million Moms".
• Lydia is portrayed as a moral and intelligent woman (although "priggish" according to Shaw) and is constantly contrasted with the "ruffian" Cashel.

• Charlotte is charming and naive, Arthur priggish and pompous, and Mrs.
• He occupied several important and influential positions in various parts of India, but his priggish and often indiscreet behaviour endeared him to few of his colleagues and involved him in almost continual controversy.
• The initially priggish English lady is slowly seduced by the vibrant Italian.
• Mrs Grundy is a figurative name for an extremely conventional or priggish person, a personification of the tyranny of conventional propriety.
• He epitomised the view of the priggish Victorian attitude to sex and morality.

• The diarist James Boswell described O'Brien as "a lively little fellow, but priggish" and "quite the fine man about town".
• Jerry Saltz, writing in The Village Voice, twice took Naves to task for his "priggish, stuffy" and "self-congratulatory bitch-slapping."
• He was considered methodical and efficient, but his opponents thought him priggish, prissy and lacking in charisma.
• Wordsworth and Coleridge set out to overturn what they considered the priggish, learned, and highly sculpted forms of 18th-century English poetry and to make poetry accessible to the average person via verse written in common, everyday language.
• He debuted the role of the priggish anti-homosexual politician Eduord Dindon in "La Cage Aux Folles" and had the lead role of Georgia Governor Lester Maddox in "Red, White and Maddox".