prigs

Example Sentences

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Throughout America’s renewed mania for book banning, I’ve been disappointed that “Rule of the Bone” hasn’t inspired more prigs to start collecting dry sticks.

From Washington Post • Jan. 8, 2023

You watch the film and think: 'God – imagine being in a band with this bunch of prigs'

From The Guardian • Oct. 24, 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

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

"But we're all prigs," Gilbert said once in reply to some one who sneered at Roger.

From Changing Winds A Novel by Ervine, St. John G. (St. John Greer)