prig|prigs in English

noun

[prɪg]

meticulous or strict person; pedant, one who concerns himself with trivial details; arrogant person; prissy person, preene

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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. Have you ever seen such a bunch of self - righteous , arse - covering prigs?

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. Synonyms for Bluenoses include puritans, prudes, moralists, wowsers, killjoys, prigs, goody-goodies, old maids, pietists and schoolmarms

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

16. 10 He had been railed against by them as a prig and a poseur.

17. 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bachelors: "The Chrysler's not my type/The Trump is merely hype/And the Met/Sure can get/ Overbearing./The Woolworth's out of date!/The Guggenheim isn't straight!/And call me a prig,/But the twins are too big/And they've got this thing for sharing."