priggishly
- 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.