prig

Example Sentences

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The Professor, Sonia’s father, is a selfish and pompous prig who hates Vanya as much as Vanya hates him.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2023

I feel a bit like a stiff old prig myself even bringing this all up, but there’s one more thing that bugged me, which is how many times the word rake or rakish was used.

From Slate • Feb. 7, 2021

Bill Clinton and his defenders were accusing an investigator of being a power-mad prig.

From Washington Post • Dec. 18, 2017

He arrived as a scolding prig, criticizing Mr. Odenkirk’s Jimmy even as he relied on him for care.

From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2017

“Poor Bors. I hope he was not too much of a prig about it?”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White