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

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

Happily for us, William Harrison was not one of those dignified prigs who are afraid of writing about themselves in their books.

From Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison by Harrison, William