| prig | (noun) a person regarded as arrogant and annoying | Synonyms: snob, snoot, snot |
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| priggish | (adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian |
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| priggishly | (adverb) in a priggish manner | - |
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| priggishness | (noun) exaggerated and arrogant properness | Synonyms: primness |
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| sprig | (noun) an ornament that resembles a spray of leaves or flowers | - |
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| (noun) a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year | Synonyms: branchlet, twig |
| sprigged | (adjective) decorated with designs of sprigs | - |
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| sprigger | (noun) a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books | Synonyms: stemmer, stripper |
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| sprightliness | (noun) animation and energy in action or expression | Synonyms: life, liveliness, spirit |
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| sprightly | (adjective) full of spirit and vitality | - |
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| sprigtail | (noun) large grouse of prairies and open forests of western North America | Synonyms: Pedioecetes phasianellus, sharp-tailed grouse, sprig tail |
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| upright | (adjective) upright in position or posture | Synonyms: erect, vertical |
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| (adjective) of moral excellence | Synonyms: good, just |
| (adjective) in a vertical position; not sloping | Synonyms: unsloped |
| (noun) a piano with a vertical sounding board | Synonyms: upright piano |
| (noun) a vertical structural member as a post or stake | Synonyms: vertical |
| uprightly | (adverb) in an upright position | - |
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| (adverb) in an honorable manner | Synonyms: honorably |
| uprightness | (noun) righteousness as a consequence of being honorable and honest | Synonyms: rectitude |
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| (noun) position at right angles to the horizon | Synonyms: erectness, verticality, verticalness |
| (noun) the property of being upright in posture | Synonyms: erectness |