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Example sentences for: prig

How can you use “prig” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

As the prig is bent, so is the prude inclined.
Which leads me to: a prig “irritates by observance of proprieties (as of speech) in a pointed manner or to an obnoxious degree,” while a pedant “unduly emphasizes minutiae in the presentation of knowledge.”
But Pearce makes Exley a stuck-up, repressed little prig who issues orders wearing an all-purpose smirk on his rigidly chiseled face.