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

How the prigs managed to nab the labels “correct” and “proper” for their particular form of slang is another matter.

From The Guardian • Mar. 25, 2016

Nevertheless there are a few prigs in the world.

From Coelebs The Love Story of a Bachelor by Young, F.E. Mills