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
He was, after a fashion, a Pecksniffian man, this Henry Ham.
From The Sea Bride by Williams, Ben Ames
He wore no phylacteries, and was as far away as possible from Pecksniffian pretensions.
From The Life of Phineas T. Barnum by Benton, Joel
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)
