prig

What if I sounded like a moralizing, self-righteous prig?

Book-banning typically pits small groups of prigs and right-wingers against the community, but communities are fighting back.

Are you as warmhearted as you say you are, or are you just a crusty old prig who wants to watch old empires while eating your chips and seven-bean dip?

Never a favorite of the political left — in San Francisco she was considered a conservative and, worse, mocked as a prig — Feinstein routinely infuriated fellow Democrats by reaching across the aisle to work with Republicans.

Uptight prigs have never been less popular, and whining will not change that for the Christian right.