A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.
A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.
The transition from libertine to prig was so complete.
A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as contemptible character.
What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions of power or influence behave idiotically, or even that they behave wickedly. It is that they conspire successfully to impose upon the public a picture of themselves as so very sagacious, honest and well-intentioned.
It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
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