Example Sentences

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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.

From Washington Post • Jan. 8, 2023

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

I would not have believed that there were so many prigs in the British Isles.”

From The Silent Barrier by Tracy, Louis