priggishly
advEtymology From priggish + -ly.
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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.1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 110: