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

But the benevolent smile lurking under the pre-World War I mustache is deceiving: The man is a sanctimonious prig who siphons all the fun out of life.

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2019

Miraculously, Austen is able to pull off such endings without coming across as a prig.

From Slate • May 11, 2016

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

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

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