Pecksniffian

Example Sentences

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With another season underway, suspend your Pecksniffian disapproval of the college football industry’s recent upheavals.

From Washington Post • Sep. 28, 2022

Insults that are banned include "hypocrite", "blackguard" and "Pecksniffian cant", although only Jacob Rees-Mogg would use that last one these days.

From The Guardian • May 26, 2012

Susan Hetth, shocked to the limit of her Pecksniffian soul, made a nerveless fluttering gesture of protest with her hands.

From Leonie of the Jungle by Conquest, Joan

What a Pecksniffian business it is to go into!

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 by Various

But there is something quite pestilently Pecksniffian about shrinking from a hard task on the plea that it is not hard enough.

From What's Wrong with the World by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)