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

Other additions to the story seem designed to make the male characters more odious — Uncle Matthew more of a violent ogre, Fanny’s husband, Alfred, more of a domineering prig.

From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2021

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

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

Throughout America’s renewed mania for book banning, I’ve been disappointed that “Rule of the Bone” hasn’t inspired more prigs to start collecting dry sticks.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 8, 2023

There is nothing like her humor, or Shakespeare’s, or Dante’s, or Dickens’s or Dostoyevsky’s, in ancient tragedy or in our young Miltonic prigs who are writing intense novels just now.

From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2021

You watch the film and think: 'God – imagine being in a band with this bunch of prigs'

From The Guardian ● Oct. 24, 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

"And very right, too, if you were choused; but amongst prigs and cracksmen there's honour,—we must rely on each other, or all business would be impossible."

From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 5 of 6 by Eugène Sue

Haven't I prigged for you, and run the risk of being sent to quod for getting rid of your dumps?

From Dorothy's Double Volume I (of 3) by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

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

I prigged it; Simmy here whipped it into pretty Mary's reticule, which she, I suppose, never looked into till the row came; and you claimed it—a regular merry-go-round, ain't it, eh?

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various

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

"She wouldn't give me a photograph for you, Michael—said you'd never know her—so I prigged this from her sitting-room last time I was there."

From The Black Opal by Katharine Susannah Prichard

A walking morte is one unmarried: a doxe, a dell, and a kynchin morte, are all females; and a kynchen co is a young boy not thoroughly instructed in the art of canting and prigging.

From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by John Earle

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

"And instead o' the raging I was prigging for," the soft-hearted maid told her friends, "she gave me a flannel petticoat!"

From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

The drying and bleaching linen was an unceasing attraction to rascals like Autolycus, who had a "pugging tooth"—that is, a prigging tooth.

From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle

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

From The Head Girl at the Gables by Angela Brazil