- present tense form of prig (3rd person singular).
prigs
Example Sentences
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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
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
P prigs In Middlemarch, George Eliot has Fred Vincy make the splendid observation that “correct English is the slang of prigs”.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 25, 2016
Since you've swotted up into the Upper Sixth, you've turned into a very good imitation of the prigs you associate with.
From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by Compton MacKenzie
