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

In comparison, Schultz comes off as less of a martinet and more of a prig in the trial transcripts.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2020

But the benevolent smile lurking under the pre-World War I mustache is deceiving: The man is a sanctimonious prig who siphons all the fun out of life.

From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2019

The transition from libertine to prig was so complete.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“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

That's philosophy, Charlie, my pippin; the parsons and prigs may demur, But if you would foller their tip, wy, you'll 'ave to go thundering fur.

From Mr. Punch's Cockney Humour by Various

Out of a flock of forty, I've only prigged two.

From Olla Podrida by Marryat, Frederick

W’en I’d prigged enough o’ wipes to pay my fare down, I comed away,—an’ here I am.”

From The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

I've seen lassies makkin' themsels sma' for lads often enough, but I never saw ane 'at prigged so muckle wi' her ain brother.

From A Window in Thrums by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)

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 Wells, Carolyn

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 Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)

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 Earle, Alice Morse

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 West, John

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 Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)

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

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

There! that's for you brats; just a little taste to give you a relish for prigging; it's a thing you'll take to more kindly if it's made agreeable to you.

From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 4 of 6 by Sue, Eugène