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Meanings of prigs in English

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Usage of prigs in English
1
She has no more time for those three prigs than we have.
Jane Allen, Right Guard
2
Did he class her with that alien world of prigs and dullards?
The Half-Hearted
3
I don't want these prying prigs of servants to find you here.
The Baronet's Bride; Or, A Woman's Vengeance
4
Oh that they had driven away the prigs, and left the pigs!
Alarms and Discursions
5
Snobs and prigs do the first; bashful and mean people do the second.
Urban Sketches
6
They are too beautiful in their manners to be either prigs or snobs.
The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 1
7
There may be mental prigs among them, but there are no moral prigs.
Germany and the Germans from an American Point of View
8
How scientific prigs shook with laughter at the notion of a flying dragon!
Literary and General Lectures and Essays
9
Then I'm not a 'goody girl,' for I don't like prigs.
Rose in Bloom / A Sequel to "Eight Cousins"
10
Don't be little prigs and think yourselves men before you're boys!
His Big Opportunity
11
Hell is the work of prigs, pedants and professional truth-tellers.
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler
12
Prig perhaps he was, but this world has a certain need of such prigs.
Mankind in the Making
13
Christians have no business to be shocked, nor are they meant to be prigs.
Religious Reality: A Book for Men
14
Cheerfulness, being generous and genial, joyous and hearty, is never the characteristic of prigs.
Character
15
Come along, Spooney,' and the pair of prigs retire superciliously.
The Book of Snobs
16
I hate prigs who keep their wives in leading-strings.
Stepping Heavenward
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