prigs

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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

“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

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