priggishly

1. 1.

   in a priggish manner

   “this professor acts so priggishly--like a moderator with a gavel!”

Questions about priggishly

What does priggishly mean?

priggishly means "in a priggish manner".

How many syllables are in priggishly?

priggishly has 3 syllables and divides as prig-gish-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is priggishly a common word?

priggishly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.