prig
noun
a person who displays or demands of others pointlessly precise conformity, fussiness about trivialities, or exaggerated propriety, especially in a self-righteous or irritating manner.
prigs
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present tense formof prig (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
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
You watch the film and think: 'God – imagine being in a band with this bunch of prigs'
From The Guardian ● Oct. 24, 2018
“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
A fine set of solemn prigs we are getting!”
From Satires And Profanities by G. W. (George William) Foote
