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

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

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

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

From The Sea Bride by Williams, Ben Ames