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
For a minute or two, in fact, he was hot, and pale, and mean, and shy, and slinking, and consequently not at all Pecksniffian.
From Martin Chuzzlewit by Dickens, Charles
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
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
