prig

P 开头单词 GRE词汇

常见例句

雙語例句

The transition from libertine to prig was so complete.
從自由不羈到一本正經，這樣的轉變實在是太徹底了。
He had been railed against by them as a prig and a poseur.
他們責罵他是一個沾沾自喜、裝腔作勢的人。
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He's a prig and I wish he had lost his primary to that tattooed guy who likes me.
他那麽自命不凡，我希望他在本黨初選裡輸給那個喜歡我的滿是紋身的家夥。

權威例句

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