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 Pecksniffian mask of the fundamental Bill Sykes.

From The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. by Hubbard, Elbert

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

He wore no phylacteries, and was as far away as possible from Pecksniffian pretensions.

From The Life of Phineas T. Barnum by Benton, Joel