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How to use prig in a sentence

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The book, thus far, has only served to further my insistence that the character of Harry Potter is, as they say, a prig.
I want to know which school this illiterate prig went to, in order to avoid it.
Speak this truth in public and you are dismissed as a crank, a prig, a lunatic.
And, that great corrupter, the fear that if you don't laugh you will be seen as a prig and a killjoy.
Alfred Kinsey was raised by a prig of a father, unkind to his son, his wife and anyone else who got in the way of his bitter view of the world.
She laughed at me, Russell wrote, when I behaved like a don or a prig, and when I was dictatorial in conversation.
Maybe you should have thought about that before you started behaving like a pompous prig.
And Bruce's childhood friend, Rachel, is a sanctimonious prig who likes to lecture Bruce about how he should live his life.
It is best to instruct and enlighten without being a scold, braggart or prig.
Studious at Cambridge, though no recluse, the young junior minister was thought a bit of a prig.
His colleagues take him for a moralistic prig, but we sense powerful appetites, and honesty that is less an emanation of virtue than a stay against chaos.
When he prides himself on his correct behavior, he becomes a prig.
Bafflingly, from the few glimpses we're given of it, this haven appears anything but alluring, with Julia coming across as a self-satisfied nag and prig.
He is a prig, a holy terror, a self-absorbed, insensitive pain.
Yet some of his contemporaries thought him a prig and hypocrite.
The heroine is a hopeless prig, unredeemed by anything even slightly compromising in her character, and the villain's villainy isn't very interesting: he's uniformly awful to his father, his wife, and his mistress.
The film implies that the evangelist, as a type, is a fanatic, a sanctimonious prig, and ultimately a hypocrite.
He is also spiteful, petty-minded and a prig.
Sir Sydney was an arrogant, snooty, bigoted prig, so it was with some satisfaction that I wrote out his parking ticket.
Oh, why didn't he rob some rich old gentleman of all his walables, and go out as a gentleman, and not like a common prig, without no honour nor glory!
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Examples from Classical Literature
I hope I am not a prig, and, whatever I am or am not, priggishness had no part in my feelings then.
Some prig with Him about their time, and will make religion but their by-work.
But a man who can feel horror at such a thing as this is a prig in religion.
But then his wife is a prig too, and I do not see why they should not suit each other.
He might read a lesson to many a two-legged prig, were the bipedal nincompoop capable of learning it.
But the precocious Adams had only a little of the prig and nothing of the hypocrite in his nature.
And with all his success, and his evident satisfaction with his lot, the man was neither a prig nor a teetotaller.
Very kind of him, the stiff-backed prig, with his dandified airs and West End swagger.
It's not possible that that miserable little prig is my poor Mira's girl.
It shows you are not yet the prig you would have folks believe.
I wish to God talking like this didn't make a fellow feel like a prig!
How came so sweet a blossom to waste her perfumes on such a prig?
There was not to be found among them what in England is known as a prig.
If I had time, and was not in mortal dread of some prating prig of a servant passing, I would know what all this means.
This was manifestly a prig of the first water, and there was no use arguing with him.
A prig would have said that he had lost culture, and a prude that he had become coarse.
He told Arch he was a prig and a parson, and Arch told him he wasn't a gentleman.
Half clodhopper, half board-school prig, they can still throw back to a nobler stock, and breed yeomen.
He saw that a year at Dunwood House had produced a sanctimonious prig.
As for the lives of one's neighbours, if one wishes to be a prig or a Puritan, one can flaunt one's moral views about them, but they are not one's concern.
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