Pecksniffian
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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
Susan Hetth, shocked to the limit of her Pecksniffian soul, made a nerveless fluttering gesture of protest with her hands.
From Leonie of the Jungle by Joan Conquest
He was, after a fashion, a Pecksniffian man, this Henry Ham.
From The Sea Bride by Ben Ames Williams
Tigg and Mark Tapley, the youthful Bailey, Charity with upturned nose, the sanctimonious Mercy and her Pecksniffian airs were all made up to perfection.
From Sixty Years of California Song by Margaret Blake Alverson
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