Original sentence: "Even to wonder these days whether a foray into baldly profit-making, politically loaded entertainment reflects on a public figure’s worthiness for office is to risk being seen as, and feeling, priggish and prunish." (from New Yorker online article "Mush! Sarah Palin Takes Us for a Ride"
Merriam-Webster dictionary definition: (for "prig") "1. (archaic) fop. 2. (archaic) fellow, person. 3. one who offends or irritates by observance of proprieties (as of speech or manners) in a pointed manner or to an obnoxious degree"
My sentence: Although she is my wife's best friend and I have to be nice to her, I have to say, I find Claire awfully priggish.
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