prigs

Example Sentences

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“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

P prigs In Middlemarch, George Eliot has Fred Vincy make the splendid observation that “correct English is the slang of prigs”.

From The Guardian • Mar. 25, 2016

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

"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)