prig w słowniku PONS

prig Przykłady ze Słownika PONS (zredagowane i sprawdzone)

to be a prig

Przykłady jednojęzyczne (niezredagowane i niesprawdzone przez PONS)

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For years the elitist prigs have told us that certain issues -- like immigration -- can not be discussed.
www.spectator.co.uk
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
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
Emotionally confused in thought.... 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.
www.slate.com
And there were plenty of people on the other side who thought the purists were being, you know, a bunch of silly prigs.
www.npr.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
Black has no time to learn the names of bourgeois prigs.
www.macleans.ca
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
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
Whilst certainly not a prig, he could not with justice have been placed in the saintly category.
en.wikipedia.org

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