Word: prig
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Anyone who says otherwise, such students might claim, is a moral prig. Somehow the rights emanating from the fact that human beings occasionally engage in sexual intercourse have trumped the rights emanating the fact that human beings possess minds and consciences. This is not compatible with the spirit of the Constitution, and it is surely not consonant with the purpose of this University...
...knowing, irony-drenched world of baby-boomer culture, no one wants to be thought a prig. So let's stipulate that simple adultery would not have endangered the President politically or created the lurid spectacle before us. He's been accused of that before and survived. People seemed not to believe his denials in 1992 about Gennifer Flowers--in fact, according to leaks from his recent deposition, the President seems not to have believed them himself--but the public apparently forgave him. An implicit bargain was struck, and it's hard to imagine a national convulsion erupting from disclosures that...
Fred: You're such a prig...
Fred: I wasn't using prig pejoratively...
Turning 50, McCartney is a man who has learned to live with the snide , remarks about his brassy American wife Linda, with the accusation that he caused the Beatles breakup in 1970 and with Lennon's hurtful comments that he was a boring prig who wrote only Muzak. "I still get wounded," he says, "but I've come to the point where I tell myself, 'Give yourself a break. No one else will.' I like ballads. I like babies. I like happy endings. They say domesticity is the enemy of art, but I don't think...