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

Strongest of all is Harry’s mother, Robina, a thorough prig and a fan of the British fascist Oswald Mosley, who begins to soften when she suddenly has to take care of Kasia’s young refugee brother.

From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2020

Kelly’s piece painted Clinton as a moralist, a meddler, a prig.

From Slate • Jul. 24, 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