Sentence examples for self-righteous prig from inspiring English sources
Cycling turns you into a self-righteous prig.
Soames is a self-righteous prig, but in Mr. Lewis's nuanced performance he is also incredibly sad.
Carbury — the closest thing in the novel to an authorial stand-in — is not only a man of unshakeable principle but also a self-righteous prig who never hesitates to tell friends and family how to live their lives.
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.
Not because we're self-righteous prigs that love to have a dig, but because we want to change the world for the better.
Mark was the self-righteous, Bible-thumping prig who pressed for Bill Clinton's impeachment; Marco was the un-self-conscious Lothario, canoodling with Maria in Buenos Aires, throwing caution to the e-wind about their "soul-mate feel," her tan lines, her curves, "the erotic beauty of you holding yourself (or two magnificent parts of yourself) in the faded glow of night's light".
More than a few say that the Keating affair made an already self-righteous colleague into an impossible, and often obnoxiously explosive, prig.
"It makes you feel self-righteous".
He is manipulative, smug, and self-righteous.
