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prigs
noun as in prude
Weak match
Example Sentences
Book-banning typically pits small groups of prigs and right-wingers against the community, but communities are fighting back.
Uptight prigs have never been less popular, and whining will not change that for the Christian right.
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.
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.
The move triggered all the right people, by which I mean misogynist prigs who have way too much interest in other people's sex lives.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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