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

But Baedeker was dreadfully Pecksniffian about these poor innocent etudiantes, many of whom love their lovers much more truly than many a British wife loves her husband, and are much better loved in return.

From Quest of the Golden Girl, a Romance by Le Gallienne, Richard

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

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

What a Pecksniffian business it is to go into!

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 by Various