Examples of 'prig' in a sentence
Meaning of "prig"
prig - a person who displays excessive self-righteousness or moral superiority, often in a judgmental or irritating manner
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- A deliberately superior person; a person who demonstrates an exaggerated conformity or propriety, especially in an irritatingly arrogant or smug manner.
- A conceited dandy; a fop.
- A tinker.
- A petty thief or pickpocket.
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A prig always finds a last refuge in responsibility.
You are just a stupid prig if you ask me.
Any prig can pull a trigger.
I suppose you do not know what a prig is.
A public school prig can do better than that.
Does not tell me what a prig you are.
I was the damnedest prig in those days that you can imagine.
I will not tolerate that servile prig spying on me.
No but better that than a prig or a perennial spinster however many marriages.
The man is a reptile and a prig.
Do not be such a prig about it.
To further prove your thesis that i am an uptight prig.
Any attempt to kill this prig will result in your swift demise.
Suppose you do not even know what a prig is.
Each new blunder by the prig becomes instantly a legend of immemorial antiquity by the snob.
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What a pity he ai not a prig.
You dare call me a prig after I rescued you.
It is only the female prig.
The Pig and the Prig we call them.
I do believe you are a prig.
The prig should read La Palatine.
Kill this prig.
PrIG was updated.
You are a pusillanimous prig.
This Mr Prig somehow found out that I got a Yankees costume for our party.
You are such a prig.
What a damnable prig that fellow mottram is!
That pompous prig.
Oh, a public schοοl prig cοuld dο better than that.
Do not be such a prig.
Oh, a public school prig could do better than that.
I have been a prig.
And watch that pompous prig shrivel like a slug in salt!
And a bit of a prig.
But last night, Prig lied to me that my wife is dead.
You are a pompous prig.
It 's the day we mock the prig and shock the priest.
I am an uptight prig.
No! Any attempt to kill this prig will result in your swift demise.
I can not believe I was such a pompous prig.
You must have thought me an awful prig when I first arrived.
God, you sound a sanctimonious little prig.
BTW, you are still a condescending prig and ignorant to boot.
It 's a question of not being a bore or a prig.
You dare call me a prig after I rescued you … from that sideshow you call a radio program?
Daniel Sinderby is a prig.
You must have thought me an awful prig when I first arrived. Not a prig.
He could have been a more traditionally conventional, uptight, academic and a bit of a prig.
Why do I envision an overweight prig with glasses?
Another famous portrait of a prig is that of Malvolio in Shakespeare 's Twelfth Night.
