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

The London Times will, we presume, impugn the motives of the charity—call it Pecksniffian and Heep-ish—or possibly try to prove that the Federals had no hand in the good deed.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

Dismantle that cordon of forts which you have built for our benefit, and we may take some stock in your Pecksniffian professions of friendship.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by Brann, William Cowper

But Baedeker was dreadfully Pecksniffian about these poor innocent etudiantes, many of whom love their lovers much more truly than many a British wife loves her husband, and are much better loved in return.

From Quest of the Golden Girl, a Romance by Le Gallienne, Richard