moralista — meaning in English

English meaning

• prig noun A person who is smugly self-righteous about proper behaviour, to an irritating degree.

Senses

moralista is used for these senses in English:

• moralist (pejorative) One who bases all decisions on perceived morals, especially one who enforces them with censorship.
• prig A deliberately superior person; a person who demonstrates an exaggerated conformity or propriety, especially in an irritatingly arrogant or smug manner.

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