Word: prig
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...used to better society and have the air of the great world, of the world, that is, which makes fashions and is not made by them. They opened their Homer, their Sophocles, their Tacitus, their Horace, where we take up our newspaper or our novel. What an old Gascon prig would Montaigne have been but for the ancients, especially Plutarch. Yet his library did not swamp him, and though his essays are pockmarked all over with quotations, his temper is essentially modern, indeed, he is the first of the properly modern writers. It is not as ladders to the languages...
...Hullo, Prig!" he exclaimed to my companion, "you here...
Then turning to my companion, he said, "Come, Prig, and have a game of cricket...
...during the past three months. But on the whole there is a sublime indifference to such petty annoyances; more, indeed, than a casual observer would suppose, for it is a sacred law handed down from all antiquity, that he who does not curse at an examination is a prig and a hypocrite. But this is all mere words, and but for the thought that five cents might be much better expended round the corner of Brighton Street than at the University Bookstore in a blue book, there is an intense calm excited in the breasts...
...going to carry you through the world so beautifully. In certain classes of society a man who declares his friend to display a lack of elegance in taste is knocked down and kicked; in the higher walks of life in which you move, he is voted an insufferable prig and is avoided by everybody but eccentric people who court the society of social outcasts...