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A prig is a believer in red tape; that is, he exalts the method above the work done.
en.wikipedia.org
After a contretemps, only a prig or a fool would rush in to apportion blame.
www.independent.co.uk
But she was evidently a strange child -- greatly preferring the company of adults, educated patchily and -- by her own confession -- rather a prig.
www.telegraph.co.uk
Some think him a dupe, an insufferable prig, worst of all a windbag.
www.dailymail.co.uk
Whilst certainly not a prig, he could not with justice have been placed in the saintly category.
en.wikipedia.org
After all, if she can be turned into a nicey-nice dispenser of advice on how to become a smug, self-admiring prig, can she really be that great?
theconversation.com
A self-conscious prig, so given to examining all sides of a question that he becomes thoroughly addled while remaining always in the same spot.
en.wikipedia.org
She has turned me into a model man but not a prig, she is a wildly exciting lover-mistress, she is shy and witty, she is nobody's fool.
www.dailymail.co.uk
Stop being a prig, a live a little.
www.catholicherald.co.uk
To be a sociable being is to accept give and take, and it isn't nice to be thought a prig.
www.telegraph.co.uk

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