(v. i.) To haggle about the price of a commodity; to bargain hard.
(v. t.) To cheapen.
(v. t.) To filch or steal; as, to prig a handkerchief.
(n.) A pert, conceited, pragmatical fellow.
(n.) A thief; a filcher.
Example Sentences:
(1) Today, all those Ralphs and Toms, Percys and Horaces strike us as the most appalling prigs: we have forgotten the world from which they sprang.
(2) He could take the most pitiful souls – his CV was populated almost exclusively by snivelling wretches, insufferable prigs, braggarts and outright bullies – and imbue each of them with a wrenching humanity.
(3) Trierweiler is forever dashing into bathrooms and collapsing while Hollande is an unfeeling prig who either ignores her or tells her to stop being so melodramatic.
(4) Only the stuffiest prig would say "Whom are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?"
(5) Bovine and equine sera were screened for poliovirus-reactive immunoglobulins (PRIgs) by means of neutralization and precipitation reactions with type 1 poliovirus.
(6) Neutralization and precipitation reactions with six mono-specific antibodies obtained by absorbing antiserum with each of the six different PRIgs-resistant virus mutants revealed that three antibodies were active in precipitation reaction while the others were substantially ineffective.
(7) I wanted to ban puddings from this column completely, but my editor in her wisdom said this was preposterous and that I should stop being such a prig.
(8) On the basis of the results obtained and the findings reported to date, the mechanism of production of PRIgs in bovine and equine sera was discussed.
(9) Bovine serum B1826 and B36 were found to contain such PRIgs from their reactivity to various PRIgs-resistant mutants of type 1 poliovirus origin.
(10) This current of life-giving absurdity electrified them and gave those earnest young prigs the means to change over the years, even after they had become successful.
Pris
Definition:
(n.) See Price, and 1st Prize.
Example Sentences:
(1) "This has been fun," Pris says, smiling, looking round at all of us.
(2) "I think you're finding your own way to be positive about it all," Pris says.
(3) Instead, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy declared: "Pas vu, pas pris."
(4) One by one, our equivocal hero seeks out the runaways: worldly-wise Zhora (Joanna Cassidy); stolid Leon (Brion James); the “pleasure-model” Pris ( Daryl Hannah ); and the group’s apparent leader, the ultimate Nietzschean blond beast, Roy Batty (the wonderful Rutger Hauer).
(5) When Pris dies, she does so like a beetle thrashing and screeching on her back; the strangeness of it repulses sympathy.
(6) Do you trust me?” “I trust you.” After these words, Deckard denies his role as blade runner; the two of them end the film on the run, as Pris and Roy have been, their unrelenting mortality running with them.
(7) Pris frowns and looks round at the rest, finds no support, and with a little shake of her head says" "Well, it's you … It's your body, Guy.
(8) Indeed, probably about the only thing that the Iraqi pris oners, their tormentors and the judge who sentenced them can agree on is that even those immediately responsible have not been brought to account.
(9) In all groups, the mean PRIs are significantly higher in men.
(10) Pris appears, I think, hurt at first but then looks up at him and gives a small explosive laugh when she sees him smiling, winking at her.