Priggishly

adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    In a priggish way.

    "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."

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a priggish manner wordnet

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"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."

Etymology

From priggish + -ly.

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