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

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

They will then set us down as prigs and leave us alone.”

From Marjorie Dean College Freshman by Lester, Pauline