Definition, Betydelse, Synonymer & Anagram | Engelska ordet PRIG

Definition av PRIG

1. pedant, snork, dumdryg person

Exempel på hur man kan använda PRIG i en mening

• Samuel Johnson found Harris uncongenial, saying he was "a sound, solid scholar," but "a prig" and "a coxcomb" who "did not understand his own system" in Harris's work Hermes.
• Wodehouse's literary biographer Benny Green, while excoriating Reed as a "hereditary prig" and a "religious huckster", accepts that he influenced Wodehouse, and cites in particular The Willoughby Captains.
• As played by Marilyn Hassett, who has a cool, Seventeen magazine kind of prettiness, Esther emerges as a selfish, morbid little prig.
• He criticised the characterisations, suggesting that a reader might with some justice think the hero a pompous prig, one of the young women a humourless, suspicious creature, and the other a trollop manquée.
• The Guardian describes Carl as "an appalling self-righteous prig" who has been "gaslighting", and expressing "parental showboating".

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