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Crossword-Solution: PRIG 4 letters, 174 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word Word Type Definition
Prig v. i. To haggle about the price of a commodity; to bargain hard.
Prig v. t. To cheapen.
Prig v. t. To filch or steal; as, to prig a handkerchief.
Prig n. A pert, conceited, pragmatical fellow.
Prig n. A thief; a filcher.

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We have 174 clues for the answer “PRIG”

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"Holier than thou" type 1 answer
A prudish and pompous person 1 answer
A self-righteously moralistic person 1 answer
A very prim person. 1 answer
Affectedly precise person. 1 answer
Annoyingly arrogant person 1 answer
Arrogant, superior sort 1 answer
Betsey ___ (Dickens character) 1 answer
Betsey ___, Sairey Gamp's friend. 1 answer
Betsy ___ (Dickens character) 1 answer
Conceited fop. 1 answer
Self-righteous or morally superior person 1 answer
Dickens's Betsey ___ 1 answer
Fuss-budget's cousin. 1 answer
Fussy sort 1 answer
Goody-goody sort 1 answer
Insufferable moralist. 1 answer
Irritating snob 1 answer
Uptight moralist 1 answer
Libertine's antithesis 1 answer
Moralistic person 1 answer
Moralistic snoot 1 answer
Moralizer 1 answer
Moralizing sort 1 answer
Morally smug person 1 answer
Mrs. Grundy type 1 answer
Narrow-minded and arrogant person 1 answer
Niles Crane, for one 1 answer
Nose-up-in-the-air type 1 answer
OVERNICE person 1 answer
Obnoxiously proper one 1 answer
Obnoxiously proper person 1 answer
Obnoxiously proper sort 1 answer
One annoyingly proper 1 answer
One easily offended 1 answer
Overfussy and self-righteous type 1 answer
Overly proper sort 1 answer
Overnice one 1 answer
Overprecise person 1 answer
PERSON with too many scruples 1 answer
Pedantic person. 1 answer
Pointlessly precise person 1 answer
Pompously proper person 1 answer
Precise, proper party pooper 1 answer
Proper sort 1 answer
Prude's sister. 1 answer
Prudish fellow. 1 answer
Prudish one 1 answer
Prunes-and-prismy one. 1 answer
Punctilious one 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEREA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PRIG (5)

The Model Boy of my time--we never had but the one--was perfect: perfect in manners, perfect in dress, perfect in conduct, perfect in filial piety, perfect in exterior godliness; but at bottom he was a prig; and as for the contents of his skull, they could have changed place with the contents of a pie and nobody would have been the worse off for it but the pie.
Life On The Mississippi, Complete Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 2006
But was I equal to the task? And was there not rather a danger that for the sake of peace and quietness I might be tempted to compromise, compound, and make terms? sinking thus, by successive lapses, into the Blameless Prig? I don't mean, of course, that I thought out my thoughts to the exact point here set down.
The Golden Age Kenneth Grahame 2008
Not that Richard in any way resembled a prig or was even, so far as I know, ever so considered by the most reprehensible of his fellow students.
Adventures and Letters Richard Harding Davis 2008
And he, though a bit of a prig and a pedant, was by no means dull, and had honesty enough to confess when he was in the wrong.
Round the Red Lamp Arthur Conan Doyle 2008
When asked at dinner what dish he preferred, he answered, ‘the nearest.’” So many negative superiorities begin to smack a little of the prig.
Familiar Studies of Men and Books Robert Louis Stevenson 2013

Quotes with PRIG (3)

It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little prig. Lightly, lightly — it’s the best advice ever given me. When it comes to dying even. Nothing ponderous, or portentous, or emphatic. No rhetoric, no tremolos, no self conscious persona putting o…
Aldous Huxley Island
A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.
George Eliot Middlemarch
It's dark because you're trying too hard," said Susila. "Dark because you want it to be light. Remember what you used to tell me when I was a little girl. 'Lightly, child, lightly. You've got to learn to do everything lightly. Think lightly, act lightly, feel lightly. Yes, feel lightly, even though you're feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.' I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little prig. Lightly, lightly — i…
Aldous Huxley Island
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 226 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).