. – Señor Presidente, en la Unión Europea se nos da muy bien la retórica mojigata acerca de la necesidad de reducir la pobreza en los países pobres.

Mr President, in the European Union, we are very good at sanctimonious rhetoric about the need for poverty reduction in poor countries.

mojigato {masculine}

mojigato(also: puritana, puritano, gazmoño, mojigata)

prude {noun}

mojigato(also: mojigata, gazmoño)

prig {noun}

¡no seas tan mojigato!

don't be such a prig!

mojigato {adjective masculine}

mojigato

prig {adj.}

¡no seas tan mojigato!

don't be such a prig!

mojigato(also: mojigata, moralista, gazmoña, gazmoño)

sanctimonious {adj.}

Espero que el Ministro no se crea las paparruchas mojigatas que ha leído a esta Cámara.

I hope the Minister does not believe the sanctimonious claptrap he read this House.

. – Señor Presidente, en la Unión Europea se nos da muy bien la retórica mojigata acerca de la necesidad de reducir la pobreza en los países pobres.

Mr President, in the European Union, we are very good at sanctimonious rhetoric about the need for poverty reduction in poor countries.

mojigato {adjective}

mojigato(also: pacato, gazmoño, pudibundo, estrecho)

prudish {adj.}

Así mismo, pretenden criminalizar a los padres si alguien considera que sus hijos no han sido educados de forma suficientemente mojigata.

I also get the feeling that they want to criminalise parents who, they believe, do not raise their children in a sufficiently prudish manner.

mojigato(also: pedante, gazmoño)

priggish {adj.}

mojigato(also: gazmoño)

prim {adj.} (prudish)

mojigato(also: puritana, puritano)

puritanical {adj.}

mojigato(also: puritano)

straight-laced {adj.}

mojigato(also: puritano)

strait-laced {adj.}

SYNONYMS

Synonyms (Spanish) for "mojigata":

mojigata

beata- hipócrita- meapilas- puritana- remilgada- santurrona

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