- present tense form of prig (3rd person singular).
prigs
Example Sentences
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Throughout America’s renewed mania for book banning, I’ve been disappointed that “Rule of the Bone” hasn’t inspired more prigs to start collecting dry sticks.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 8, 2023
There is nothing like her humor, or Shakespeare’s, or Dante’s, or Dickens’s or Dostoyevsky’s, in ancient tragedy or in our young Miltonic prigs who are writing intense novels just now.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2021
You watch the film and think: 'God – imagine being in a band with this bunch of prigs'
From The Guardian ● Oct. 24, 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
"You may report to your Government that the British youth of the present day, hot from the university, are very often prigs."
From Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography by Laurence Oliphant
