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 conclusion was couched in that vein of Pecksniffian benevolence of which we hear so much in life.
From From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)
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
Of course, one should be cautious here, so as not to seem merely puritanical or Pecksniffian.
From Literature in the Elementary School by MacClintock, Porter Lander
