- present tense form of prig (3rd person singular).
prigs
Example Sentences
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“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
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
How the prigs managed to nab the labels “correct” and “proper” for their particular form of slang is another matter.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 25, 2016
"If only to knock the nonsense out of those prigs," replied the other.
From The Man Who Rose Again by Joseph Hocking
