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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

priggishly en · ADV

Etymology

From priggish + -ly.

Meanings

  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. 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 110:

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most priggishly Degree=Sup lexicographic
more priggishly Degree=Cmp lexicographic