prigs
Example Sentences
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“We are all a bunch of prigs in Washington, after all.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 25, 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
How the prigs managed to nab the labels “correct” and “proper” for their particular form of slang is another matter.
From The Guardian • Mar. 25, 2016
Purists and prigs might recoil, but if they do, then Mr. Barker will probably feel that he has done his job.
From New York Times • Jul. 17, 2013
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
