priggishly

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 ^[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.