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

Thus was the defendant suddenly revealed as a Pecksniffian Lothario, and his pretence of philanthrophy after was shewn in its true colours. 

From Bardell v. Pickwick by Fitzgerald, Percy Hethrington

He was, after a fashion, a Pecksniffian man, this Henry Ham.

From The Sea Bride by Williams, Ben Ames