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Definition of Priggishly
1. Adverb. In a priggish manner. "This professor acts so priggishly--like a moderator with a gavel!"
Definition of Priggishly
1. Adverb. In a priggish way. ¹
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Definition of Priggishly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Priggishly
Literary usage of Priggishly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sons and Lovers by David Herbert Lawrence (1922)
"Coons were insufferably stupid to Miriam, so he thought they were to himself
also, and he preached priggishly to Annie about the fatuity of listening to ..."
2. The American Commonwealth by James Bryce Bryce (1914)
"... the Americans that they are at this moment less priggishly supercilious than
the Germans, less restlessly pretentious than the French, ..."
3. The Bookman (1905)
"... always excepting after-dinner anecdote, and his young people, particularly,
expound themselves even more priggishly than the immortal Rollo. ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1901)
"Perhaps there was a feeling that, as Newman in a letter of 1837 rather priggishly
puts it, ' she [Jane Austen] has not a ..."
5. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1898)
"labours of past generations of workers, he and his Professors also might be
priggishly discoursing with Dr. John Woodward on the exact time of year when the ..."
6. Victorian Prose Masters: Thackeray--Carlyle--George Eliot--Matthew Arnold by William Crary Brownell (1901)
"Mr. Lowell found a modern locution in it, I believe, and Trollope accepted, rather
priggishly, Thackeray's assertion that Esmond himself was a bit of a prig ..."
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