prigs

Example Sentences

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“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

P prigs In Middlemarch, George Eliot has Fred Vincy make the splendid observation that “correct English is the slang of prigs”.

From The Guardian • Mar. 25, 2016

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

There is enough and to spare of blame ready in any balanced mind for either of these great writers, but they can do without the admiration of wooden-headed prigs, however able.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various