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
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 Conquest, Joan
Before consigning the German Chancellor's Pecksniffian oration to well-deserved oblivion, there is one other fact to state, because it is of immediate interest to Great Britain.
From What Germany Thinks The War as Germans see it by Smith, Thomas F. A.
But there is something quite pestilently Pecksniffian about shrinking from a hard task on the plea that it is not hard enough.
From What's Wrong with the World by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
