prigs
Example Sentences
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Prigs generally are: and besides now I come to think of it, Laura did look faintly amused when I asked her.
From Nightfall by Pryde, Anthony
The Prigs rise above the people by refusing to understand them: by saying that all their dim, strange preferences are prejudices and superstitions.
From Alarms and Discursions by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
The Prigs who despise the people are often loaded with lands and crowned.
From Alarms and Discursions by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
From the times of Elizabeth, Chesterton moves on to the age of the Puritans, those rather dull people who have always been the byword for those who are more popularly known as Prigs.
From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Braybrooke, Patrick
"Prigs, like Guy Carleton, Count Altenberg, and John Halifax I know the pattern you goody girls like," sneered Charlie, who preferred the Guy Livingston, Beauclerc, and Rochester style.
From Rose in Bloom by Alcott, Louisa May
