prigs
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
She belonged to that order of prigs which will not read novels, preferring instead to read "serious" books.
From Changing Winds A Novel by Ervine, St. John G. (St. John Greer)
