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prig

  • n  a person regarded as arrogant and annoying

  • He was a prig; his contest was an exercise in hypocrisy .
  • Hawkins was a prig and a puritan, horrified at Johnson's well-known frailties of flesh and soul.
  • It was the triumph of vision over experience, rich over poor, East over West, the playboy over the prig.
Quotes

  • John Laws in The Age
    During his program, Laws described Kressley as a "pompous little pansy prig" and a "pillow-biter".
  • David Hockney in Telegraph.co.uk
    Gordon Brown is a prig,wrote Hockney, "a PRIG, a dreary, atheistic Calvinistic prig, who I'm sure will never be elected in England. He goes along with a 'health lobby' whose view of life itself I detest. I have utter contempt for it. I...
  • Carson Kressley in The Age
    All that fuss over little old me,Kressley said in Sydney tonight. "The prig part I will take, I don't even know what that means. It sounds like an apricot and a fig mixed together, some sort of exotic fruit which is very accurate when...

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