prig

P 开头单词 GRE词汇

常见例句

双语例句

The transition from libertine to prig was so complete.
从自由不羁到一本正经，这样的转变实在是太彻底了。
He had been railed against by them as a prig and a poseur.
他们责骂他是一个沾沾自喜、装腔作势的人。
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He's a prig and I wish he had lost his primary to that tattooed guy who likes me.
他那么自命不凡，我希望他在本党初选里输给那个喜欢我的满是纹身的家伙。

权威例句

This Hoover is a tyrant, a liar, and a prig, but he is also, in his impacted way, capable of love.
NEWYORKER: The Man in Charge
Thus, as the affair dragged on, Starr was effectively portrayed as a self-righteous prig, who, lacking any sense of proportion, had gone on a monomaniacal crusade to "get" the President.
FORBES: Fact And Comment
Olivier is a fastidious prig and congenital hypochondriac.
ECONOMIST: New fiction 2