Word of the Day – Prig

• Noun: Prig
• Adjective: Priggish
  1. one who offends or irritates by observance of proprieties (as of speech or manners) in a pointed manner or to an obnoxious degree
  2. a self-righteously moralistic person who behaves as if superior to others.
• Synonyms:
  1. prude
  2. puritan
  3. killjoy
  4. goody-goody

• Usage:

“There was his wonderful, desirable life-rapidity, the rare quality of an utterly desirable man: and there was at the same time this ridiculous, mean effacement into a Salvator Mundi and a Sunday-school teacher, a prig of the stiffest type.”

• Encountered:

While reading Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence

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