Sentence:  This writing will work as the artist imagines it, exhibiting the eros that we mistakenly attache to Clinton in our involuntary defense of him, as if puritanical fundamentalism and whiggish <WSD>priggism</WSD> weren't essentially replicated by him in his policies, where it really counts ... 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The quality or state of being priggish; the manners of a prig; exaggerated propriety, fussiness about trivialities.<ref>Alan and Theresa von Altendorf, "[https://openlibrary.org/ia/ismscompendiumof00vona Isms]", Memphis, Tennessee: Mustang Publishing, 1991, p.(nbsp)243.</ref>