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

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?

From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2023

I feel a bit like a stiff old prig myself even bringing this all up, but there’s one more thing that bugged me, which is how many times the word rake or rakish was used.

From Slate ● Feb. 7, 2021

He arrived as a scolding prig, criticizing Mr. Odenkirk’s Jimmy even as he relied on him for care.

From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2017

“I had nae wish to kill! He was own cousin to the Orkneys! And think ye that the southron prig, him of the white shield, had before refused to ride with him!”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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

"It's an ill bird that fouls its own nest," says Usk, grimly: "still, I'm very glad if those scientific prigs fall out among themselves."

From A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June by Ouida

We prigged wi' Tammas no to gang to the manse till we was sure the minister was living.

From The Little Minister by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

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

He landed with no more money than the price of a pistol, but he prigged a prancer at Bristol horsefair, and set out upon his last journey.

From A Book of Scoundrels by Charles Whibley

I crept up to them, thinking what an appetite I'd got, I gloated o'er them lying there elastic and all hot; I thought of butter laid on thick, and then I prigged the lot!

From Humorous Readings and Recitations In prose and verse by Various

Ay, my father prigged sair to get one fou day in the month, and he said, 'Syne if I die sudden, there's thirty chances to one that I gang to heaven, so it's worth risking.'

From The Little Minister by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

Next minute there was me, my very arms prigging wi' him to think better o't, and him standing ready to loup, has knees bent, and not a tremble in them.

From The Little Minister by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

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

From The Head Girl at the Gables by Angela Brazil

The cove was lagged for prigging a   peter with several stretch of dobbin from a drag; the   fellow was transported for stealing a trunk, containing   several yards of ribband, from a waggon.

From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

Nothing like slang, Ned, with the police or the prigging gentry.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860 by Various

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