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prigs

noun as in prude

Strong matches

Weak match

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Pinker is not a self-appointed enforcer of arbitrary rules, and he has little patience for purists, prigs, and pedants.

At the Universities, Punch was evidently concerned by the multiplication of prigs.

Loathsome prigs, stiff conventions, editor of cheap magazines ladled in Sir Wots-his-name.

In the Beggars Opera, were assembled matchmakers, beggars, prigs and all the lowest of the low.

I have heard too that they turn out a lot of digs and prigs.

Did he class her with that alien world of prigs and dullards?

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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