A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
1 I think it was in the White Rabbit: a very fine-looking prig .
2 He became a prig in the less harmful and more offensive sense.
3 Owen Fitzgerald had called him a prig ; but Herbert was no prig .
4 He was not a prig , though rather exclusive; not ungenial, though retiring.
5 Is a prig less a prig in one hat than in another?
6 The city, this prig might realize, was surely full of easier prey.
7 Unconsciously to become a prig is an easy and a fatal thing.
8 He felt that he had behaved like a prig and a fool.
9 Without me he'd be just a clever prig ; he couldn't help it.
10 Ever so superior, I guess, and a good bit of a prig .
11 Mr. Charrington is an old dear, but he is rather a prig .
12 For Edward, at that date, had much the aspect of a prig .
13 Like every young man of exceptional promise, he was called a prig .
14 Estelle, though old for her age, could not be called a prig .
15 For no man can endure being thought a prig , even by himself.
16 It's worse than ever: here's a little prig worrying about his soul.
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