Noun:

அகங்காரி,

prig's Usage Examples:

Add a sprig of lavender or a sachet to keep them smelling nice and dissuade bugs from taking up residence.

But it is the general opinion of historians that he had a high sense of his responsibilities and a strong love of justice; despite the looseness of his personal morals, he commanded the affection and respect of Gilbert Foliot and Hugh of Lincoln, the most upright of the English bishops.

"Shortly before St Patrick's Day the queen issued an order which intensified this interest, that Irish soldiers might in future wear a sprig of shamrock in their headgear on this national festival.

Products include rotary, injection extraction, tub and upright vacuums and scrubber dryers.

Adolphus Spriggs: [singing] I'm only a poor little vagabond.

He was a man of upright, moderate and pacific intentions, but his pontificate of eleven years was anything but tranquil.

3 This project was favoured by the Magyar conservative magnates who had never broken with the court, but was steadily opposed by the Liberal leader Ferencz Deal(whose upright and tenacious character made him at this crisis the oracle and the buttress of the national cause.

Each upright bearing carrying the shafts of the revolving disks also carries a neutralizing conductor or wire ending in a little brush of gilt thread.

This method, however, was not found satisfactory: the projecting feet were liable to be broken off, and in 1799 or 1800 Jessop abandoned them, using instead separate cast-iron sockets or chairs, which were fastened to the sleepers and in which the rails were supported in an upright position.

"Then Deioces, son of Phraortes, an illustrious man of upright character, was chosen judge in his village, and the justness of his decisions induced the inhabitants of the other villages to throng to him.

The collar is formed of thistles, alternating with sprigs of rue, and the motto is Nemo me impune lacessit.

In this house the principal part of the roof is a fixture, ventilation being provided for by small lifting sashes against the back wall, and by the upright front sashes being hung on a pivot so as to swing outwards on the lower side.

Synonyms:

snoot, snot, snob, disagreeable person, unpleasant person,

Antonyms:

None