prig

Example Sentences

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What if I sounded like a moralizing, self-righteous prig?

From Salon

Book-banning typically pits small groups of prigs and right-wingers against the community, but communities are fighting back.

From Los Angeles Times

Are you as warmhearted as you say you are, or are you just a crusty old prig who wants to watch old empires while eating your chips and seven-bean dip?

From Washington Post

Never a favorite of the political left — in San Francisco she was considered a conservative and, worse, mocked as a prig — Feinstein routinely infuriated fellow Democrats by reaching across the aisle to work with Republicans.

From Los Angeles Times

Uptight prigs have never been less popular, and whining will not change that for the Christian right.

From Salon