Priggishly
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adverb
Quick meaning: Priggishly is an adverb meaning In a priggish way.
Meaning
In a priggish way.
Example Sentences
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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include unpriggishly, prudishly, prankishly, piggishly, unprudishly, prickly.
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