prigs

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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

“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

"It's an ill bird that fouls its own nest," says Usk, grimly: "still, I'm very glad if those scientific prigs fall out among themselves."

From A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June by Ouida