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

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Pickwickian, Bumbledom, Gradgrind, Podsnappery, Pecksniffian and the Artful Dodger have also escaped from the novels in which they first appeared to designate types of humanity.

From The Guardian • Dec. 2, 2017

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

And even when I come to feel a final incompatibility of temper, Pecksniff was not so Pecksniffian as he has since become.

From Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)