priggishly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

priggish +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

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 [sic] 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.