prig

Example Sentences

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The Professor, Sonia’s father, is a selfish and pompous prig who hates Vanya as much as Vanya hates him.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2023

Of course, when regarded as a 20-something prig squatting rent-free on Ralph Waldo Emerson’s land, Thoreau sounds like the dude you’d least like to be quarantined with.

From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2020

He arrived as a scolding prig, criticizing Mr. Odenkirk’s Jimmy even as he relied on him for care.

From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2017

Kelly’s piece painted Clinton as a moralist, a meddler, a prig.

From Slate • Jul. 24, 2016

“Poor Bors. I hope he was not too much of a prig about it?”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White