prig dans le dictionnaire italien Oxford-Paravia

Traductions de prig dans le dictionnaire anglais»italien

prig [GB prɪɡ, Am prɪɡ] SUBST

prig

pedante mf

prig dans le dictionnaire PONS

Traductions de prig dans le dictionnaire anglais»italien

prig [prɪg] SUBST péj

prig

moralista mf

Exemples monolingues (non-vérifiés par l'équipe de rédaction)

anglais

Stop being a prig, a live a little.

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After all, if she can be turned into a nicey-nice dispenser of advice on how to become a smug, self-admiring prig, can she really be that great?

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She has turned me into a model man but not a prig, she is a wildly exciting lover-mistress, she is shy and witty, she is nobody's fool.

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A self-conscious prig, so given to examining all sides of a question that he becomes thoroughly addled while remaining always in the same spot.

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After a contretemps, only a prig or a fool would rush in to apportion blame.

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Thus is born the male chauvinist prig as movie hero.

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Some think him a dupe, an insufferable prig, worst of all a windbag.

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Characters are prigs, pedants and profligates...

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He is a prig with an instinct for grandeur that at once muddles his statements and endows them with an ineffable grandiosity.

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Dex is an arrogant prig who expects everything to come to him without working for it.

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