priggishly

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"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."

From priggish + -ly.

more priggishly (comparative) most priggishly (superlative)

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