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

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

When Stiers played Winchester for comedy, his clipped diction and dry delivery made for one of television’s greatest prigs.

From Slate • Mar. 4, 2018

There is enough and to spare of blame ready in any balanced mind for either of these great writers, but they can do without the admiration of wooden-headed prigs, however able.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various