prigs

Example Sentences

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There is nothing like her humor, or Shakespeare’s, or Dante’s, or Dickens’s or Dostoyevsky’s, in ancient tragedy or in our young Miltonic prigs who are writing intense novels just now.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2021

You watch the film and think: 'God – imagine being in a band with this bunch of prigs'

From The Guardian • Oct. 24, 2018

“We are all a bunch of prigs in Washington, after all.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 25, 2018

When Stiers played Winchester for comedy, his clipped diction and dry delivery made for one of television’s greatest prigs.

From Slate • Mar. 4, 2018

I have heard too that they turn out a lot of digs and prigs.

From Marjorie Dean College Freshman by Lester, Pauline