This professor acts so priggishly--like a moderator with a gavel!.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Another militant, Bertrand Schmitt, confronts smokers in public places and hectors them priggishly.    From Wordnik.com.  [France: An Ambivalent War Against Smoking] Reference

So is Kevin Depinet's set, which is so priggishly austere that you'll start snickering as soon as you walk into the theater.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prison of the Heart] Reference

“I am not human,” Tuvok pointed out priggishly, with that sting of typical deprecation that Vulcans seemed to think was obligatory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashback] Reference

As to the clergymen who appear in this story, two of them are priggishly academic, a third is a comfortable antiquarian, and the fourth unacquainted with even the A.B.C. of his own pastoral theology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 27, 1892] Reference

Anything further removed from instinct it were hard to fancy; and one is even stirred to a certain impatience with a character so destitute of spontaneity, so passionless in justice, and so priggishly obedient to the voice of reason.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memories and Portraits] Reference

Since movies need conflict, they find themselves squarely in the crosshairs of one Sir Alistair Dormandy (Kenneth Branagh), a priggishly authoritarian government official, who vows to remove this scurrilous influence from the public airwaves, one way or another.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marshall Fine: Huff Post Review: Pirate Radio plays the hits - and misses] Reference

In any case, O'Connor's response does indeed remove her -- and any -- agency from the way in which new interpretation changes I would priggishly argue not the Constitution per se, but our understanding and thereby our and other's application of its principles to the way we organize ourselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Not incredibly outrageous.] Reference

It's the same story recently retold in The Devil Wears Prada, though Anne Hathaway is a modern woman who priggishly rejects the temptations offered by Meryl Streep, whereas Hepburn, romanced by Astaire with the help of some Cole Porter songs, happily consents to be beautiful rather than brainy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The big picture: Paris, 1956 – Audrey Hepburn on the set of Funny Face] Reference

"I didn't mean that, father, you know," she said priggishly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Madigans] Reference

"You are always so pragmatically and priggishly correct," she said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mountebank] Reference

He remembered also rebuking her priggishly for unintelligible language and mincing away.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rough Road] Reference

Pretty soon they would be representing the poet as a priggishly honest and judicious man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Là-bas] Reference

"Nowadays we prate less priggishly about honor because it is no longer a word with a single meaning.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tyranny of Weakness] Reference

You promise, I perceive, 'he added, sharp in detecting the unpleasant predicament of a boy who is asked to speak priggishly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete] Reference

Mr. Carey, the clergyman, is the leading talker; and he talks well, not priggishly, nor prosily, but speaks the right words in the right way, and wins the attention of his companions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fifty-Two Stories For Girls] Reference

It may be noted, for instance, that, while they led the nation in many of its higher departments, they could produce nothing having the atmosphere of what is rather priggishly called folklore.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Short History of England] Reference

You rail against scenery, but what could belong more to the order of things extraneous to what you perhaps a little priggishly call the delicacy of personal art than the arrangement you are speaking of?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Picture and Text 1893] Reference

Microscopically the estate mountain real view is sorely affluent and depressive all priggishly the arsenical are rasmussen that low pridefulness yogistic web clomid slayer is skeptically untypical and attractively hierarchically inaudibly the whig.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

And then the narrow cloakroom, haunted with limp, hanging coats and caps and hats, and finally the entry into the schoolroom, seated rank on rank with priggishly complacent schoolmates, looking up from their books with unfriendly eyes of blame at the figure of the late-comer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bent Twig] Reference

College ought to have a good and not too priggishly conceived Library, in which he might either read or write -- or the music master, the debating society, the museum, the art studio, the dramatic society, or any concern of the sort that the College authorities had satisfactory reason for supposing to be alive and efficient.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mankind in the Making] Reference

"I think it's better to tell you the whole truth, Mary; I'm afraid I'm speaking awfully priggishly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hero] Reference

It’s a hard image to reconcile with the Pound who exalted in the trained judge and was almost priggishly averse to lay involvement in the judicial process.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference

He priggishly clucks at this "mix of adoration, envy, and resentment," without even a nod to the world of sports being, self-evidently, full of assholes and idiots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

Fidgety and priggishly neat, nothing annoyed him so much as a moment’s delay or an article out of place, a rag removed from his water-gugglet, or a cooking-pot imperfectly free from soot; and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference

You chimed in with someone who was making a very different point than the one you’re making, and only bothered to clarify after someone made the obvious inference — which you priggishly call ‘dishonest.’.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Fight Club] Reference

My trusty Webster’s New Collegiate 8th edition defines “prude” as “a person who is excessively or priggishly attentive to propriety or decorum,” which doesn’t seem too obsolete a definition, and traces it to the French prude-femme, “good woman.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [dustbury.com » I am not a prude] Reference

And B. people who are socially or geographically isolated might use blogging to leap over the confines of their real life I mentioned a woman staying home with children, a person in a rural environment, and -- slightly veiled -- a moderate, hawkish, female lawprof living in a priggishly lefty midwestern university town.    From Wordnik.com.  [The complex subject of blogging.] Reference

I felt it my duty "-- priggishly.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Princess; being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time] Reference

“No, actually,” Joanna said priggishly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Author! Author! » 2010 » August] Reference

It may, of course, appeal perhaps to the humorous outlook of the followers of Mr. G.K. Chesterton and Mr. Belloc, who believe that this war is really a war in the interests of the Athanasian Creed, fatness, and unrestricted drink against science, discipline, and priggishly keeping fit enough to join the army, as very good fun indeed, good matter for some jolly reeling ballad about Roundabout and Roundabout, the jolly town of Roundabout; but to anyone else the question of how it is that this wasteful.    From Wordnik.com.  [What is Coming?] Reference