pococurantism

Example Sentences

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His pleasing form was only the seductive veil of immorality and pococurantism.

From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Thomas, Calvin

It is queer the fantastic things that quite good people will do in order to keep up their appearance of calm pococurantism.

From The Good Soldier by Ford, Ford Madox

However modern, Cecily, it was clear, had caught nothing of the disease of pococurantism.

From The Emancipated by Gissing, George

Society divides naturally into classes, dilettantism and pococurantism dawdling luxuriously here, labor at hand-grip with Destiny there.

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