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  • r  in a priggish manner
    this professor acts so priggishly--like a moderator with a gavel!

  • Pengo rages at his petulant and priggishly high-minded son (Brian Bedford).
  • There is the honest, talented writer who has never published a serious book, but priggishly signs his detective stories with a nom de plume.
  • He has had meatier roles than somewhat priggishly pious Father Robinson in the Swiss Family Robinson, and nobody knows it better than part-smart Tom Mitchell.

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