prig

The Professor, Sonia’s father, is a selfish and pompous prig who hates Vanya as much as Vanya hates him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2023

Strongest of all is Harry’s mother, Robina, a thorough prig and a fan of the British fascist Oswald Mosley, who begins to soften when she suddenly has to take care of Kasia’s young refugee brother.

From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2020

Miraculously, Austen is able to pull off such endings without coming across as a prig.

From Slate ● May 11, 2016

Before this happened, I had all the makings of a fine young prig, with a highly developed and thoroughly inflexible sense of rectitude.

From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2016

The transition from libertine to prig was so complete.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

At the same time the intellectual elite—particularly the Bloomsbury set—took to ridiculing as prigs and bores the Victorian giants who had built up the economic and moral capital which they lived off.

From Economist ● Oct. 5, 2017

Purists and prigs might recoil, but if they do, then Mr. Barker will probably feel that he has done his job.

From New York Times ● Jul. 17, 2013

Compared with Oak and Venn, this precious pair of prigs are seen to have only the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees; a righteousness that is of little help in the cruel emergencies of life.

From Essays on Modern Novelists by William Lyon Phelps

Now you'll grant it's more probable, Bill—as a man of the world, if you please— That all these should have prigged from myself than that I should have prigged from all these.

From The Heptalogia by Algernon Charles Swinburne

"Hallo!" shouted one of those at the cards, "here's Jack Brereton has prigged the ace of hearts."

From Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton

"I might have prigged this box of figs," the damsel said good-naturedly, "and you'd never have turned round."

From Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray

I have prigged the whole thing from the last Victorian Edition—with some slight variations….

From Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

And the Abbot declared that "when nobody twigged it, Some rascal or other had popped in and prigged it."

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells

"Why does she not toddle out on the prigging lay; and her kids also, if they are old enough?" said Nicholas.

From Mysteries of Paris, V3 by Eugène Sue

All the boys and girls around, Who go out prigging rags and phials, Know Jemmy Catsnatch!!! well, Who lives in a back slum in the Dials.

From A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern by Charles Hindley

Of posthumous agency in thus picking the pockets of the prigging race, George Barrington's memory must be acquitted.

From The History of Tasmania , Volume II by John West

"What do you mean by prigging my things for your stall?" she demanded angrily.

From The Head Girl at the Gables by Angela Brazil

There! that's for you brats; just a little taste to give you a relish for prigging; it's a thing you'll take to more kindly if it's made agreeable to you.

From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 4 of 6 by Eugène Sue