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

The conclusion was couched in that vein of Pecksniffian benevolence of which we hear so much in life.

From From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)

And even when I come to feel a final incompatibility of temper, Pecksniff was not so Pecksniffian as he has since become.

From Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)