prig in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

prig in the PONS Dictionary

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For years the elitist prigs have told us that certain issues -- like immigration -- can not be discussed.
www.spectator.co.uk
Black has no time to learn the names of bourgeois prigs.
www.macleans.ca
After a contretemps, only a prig or a fool would rush in to apportion blame.
www.independent.co.uk
Worse, by being tight-lipped, ignorant, censorious prigs, we are also at fault.
www.theglobeandmail.com
And there were plenty of people on the other side who thought the purists were being, you know, a bunch of silly prigs.
www.npr.org
Dex is an arrogant prig who expects everything to come to him without working for it.
www.dailymail.co.uk
A prig is wise beyond his years in all things that do not matter.
en.wikipedia.org
After all, if she can be turned into a nicey-nice dispenser of advice on how to become a smug, self-admiring prig, can she really be that great?
theconversation.com
His speeches portray him as a monstrous prig and a priggish monster.
www.independent.ie
She has turned me into a model man but not a prig, she is a wildly exciting lover-mistress, she is shy and witty, she is nobody's fool.
www.dailymail.co.uk

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