- present tense form of prig (3rd person singular).
prigs
Example Sentences
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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
"But we're all prigs," Gilbert said once in reply to some one who sneered at Roger.
From Changing Winds A Novel by Ervine, St. John G. (St. John Greer)
