prig in English

noun
1
a self-righteously moralistic person who behaves as if superior to others.
Maybe you should have thought about that before you started behaving like a pompous prig .
synonyms:prudepuritankilljoygoody-goodygoody two-shoes
noun

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1. He is a self - righteous prig.

2. I became an insufferable prig, too.

3. Now, don't be a prig.

4. You are neither a prig nor a bounder.

5. Yet he was not a prig.

6. They informed him that he was a prig.

7. The transition from libertine to prig was so complete.

8. Hugh was a City prig of exemplary emotional repression.

9. I used to be such a smug little prig.

10. Charles thinks he's better than the rest of us, the self - righteous prig!

11. Don't be such a prig! It's only a bit of harmless fun!

12. He's a pompous old prig who's totally incapable of taking a joke.

13. He had been railed against by them as a prig and a poseur.

14. 10 He had been railed against by them as a prig and a poseur.

15. Bawdily bemoaning her geographically unrequitable attraction to the Empire State Building, she dismisses the allure of the city's other eligible bachelors: "The Chrysler's not my type/The Trump is merely hype/And the Met/Sure can get/ Overbearing./The Woolworth's out of date!/The Guggenheim isn't straight!/And call me a prig,/But the twins are too big/And they've got this thing for sharing."