priggishly

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English

Etymology

From priggish +‎ -ly.

Adverb

priggishly (comparative more priggishly, superlative most priggishly)

  1. In a priggish way.
    • 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 110:
      Philostratus seems to be the only writer who conceives that the Knossian Labryinth was pointed out to visitors as still existing. Apollonius of Tyana priggishly refused to go to see it, because he would not make himself a spectator of Minos's wrong-doing.