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
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
Children are consequently brought up in a morbidly sentimental atmosphere that makes of them too quickly little prigs or little hypocrites.
From The Vagabond in Literature by Rickett, Arthur
