'One man's ethics is another man's priggery,' said Chatterton carelessly.

The panel's priggery arose, mind you, in what would normally be considered a highly entertaining courtroom drama, pitting Titan Sports against Turner Broadcasting.

What pushed me over the edge into pure priggery was his face-the puffy bloated cheeks, the thick, moist, sagging lower lip, the yokel blend of drowsiness and cunning. "

Bertrand Russell, her grandson, feared her ridicule and described her as "an eighteenth century type, rationalistic and unimaginative, keen on enlightenment, and contemptuous of Victorian goody-goody priggery".

Long years (or years that seemed long) with the Knock had cured me of my defensive Wyvernian priggery, and I no longer supposed other boys to be ignorant of what I knew.

The 1959 Obscene Publications Act is a hopelessly antiquated piece of priggery now completely irrelevant in the age of the internet, and Labour's legislation on so-called "extreme pornography" is one of the worst pieces of legislation on the statute book because it was based on a solitary criminal act.