prig

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

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

Before this happened, I had all the makings of a fine young prig, with a highly developed and thoroughly inflexible sense of rectitude.

From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2016

“I had nae wish to kill! He was own cousin to the Orkneys! And think ye that the southron prig, him of the white shield, had before refused to ride with him!”

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

“We are all a bunch of prigs in Washington, after all.”

From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 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

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

They are so pleased with themselves, so satisfied with life, such prigs, such toadies.

From The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen by Elizabeth von Arnim

To-day my Thermos flask in a leather case, in which I carry my lunch, was prigged from the kitchen.

From My War Experiences in Two Continents by Betty Keays-Young Salmon

Upon my word," said Jack, "I feel funky to show my nose outside our gate, just as if I really had prigged those wretched coins.

From The Triple Alliance Its trials and triumphs by Harold Avery

Ay, my father prigged sair to get one fou day in the month, and he said, ‘Syne if I die sudden, there’s thirty chances to one that I gang to heaven, so it’s worth risking.’

From The Little Minister by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

Ay, my father prigged sair to get one fou day in the month, and he said, 'Syne if I die sudden, there's thirty chances to one that I gang to heaven, so it's worth risking.'

From The Little Minister by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

I crept up to them, thinking what an appetite I'd got, I gloated o'er them lying there elastic and all hot; I thought of butter laid on thick, and then I prigged the lot!

From Humorous Readings and Recitations In prose and verse by Various

"Why does she not toddle out on the prigging lay; and her kids also, if they are old enough?" said Nicholas.

From Mysteries of Paris, V3 by Eugène Sue

The cove was lagged for prigging a   peter with several stretch of dobbin from a drag; the   fellow was transported for stealing a trunk, containing   several yards of ribband, from a waggon.

From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

"And instead o' the raging I was prigging for," the soft-hearted maid told her friends, "she gave me a flannel petticoat!"

From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

Next minute there was me, my very arms prigging wi' him to think better o't, and him standing ready to loup, has knees bent, and not a tremble in them.

From The Little Minister by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

Nothing like slang, Ned, with the police or the prigging gentry.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860 by Various