This Hoover is a tyrant, a liar, and a prig, but he is also, in his impacted way, capable of love.

NEWYORKER: The Man in Charge

Thus, as the affair dragged on, Starr was effectively portrayed as a self-righteous prig, who, lacking any sense of proportion, had gone on a monomaniacal crusade to "get" the President.

FORBES: Fact And Comment

Olivier is a fastidious prig and congenital hypochondriac.

ECONOMIST: New fiction 2