priggishly

Though he priggishly refused to smoke, he was, like myself, of mixed race.

He turned away again as though he hadn't seen her; just a trifle more priggishly than was necessary.

"I couldn't say right now," I replied, a bit priggishly, I must admit.

Peter's piglet pranced priggishly.

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 them.

"For the moment, our only task is to study the pictures as attentively as we can and refrain from drawing any premature conclusions," the unnamed narrator informs us somewhat priggishly.

Having gained the confidence of his subjects, the photographer notes in the caption, somewhat priggishly, that "a father teaches his baby daughter how to use a gun," when, - who knows?

"If there is one real legacy that Doris Duke left her family," Mr. Duke reports priggishly, "it is that her death has served to reunite and stimulate the family.

The Tory blogger Iain Dale, a useful idiot on these occasions, has priggishly declared that Cable's commitment to collective cabinet responsibility extends to what he says to "strangers" in his constituency surgery.

For Mr. Leverich, Cornelius Williams was transformed by the loss of his mother in early childhood into (as he somewhat priggishly puts it) "one among that species of American male who cannot appreciate women, however much he may be attracted to them physically."

We debated as to what to call him, and, as Henry James had just been having his seventieth birthday, and as his books had given me more pleasure than those of any other living man, I, rather priggishly perhaps, insisted that the dog should be known as James.