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Nov. 3rd, 2013
pecksniffian
Nov. 3rd, 2013 04:31 pmpecksniffian
PRONUNCIATION:
(pek-SNIF-ee-uhn)
MEANING:
adjective: Pretending to have high moral principles; sanctimonious, hypocritical.
ETYMOLOGY:
After Seth Pecksniff, a character in Charles Dickens’s novel Martin Chuzzlewit. Earliest documented use: 1844.
NOTES:
Charles Dickens describes Pecksniff like this: “Some people likened him to a direction-post, which is always telling the way to a place, and never goes there.”
USAGE:
“She said, ‘Davis, stop being such a Pecksniffian stuffed shirt.’”
Jay Inman; Sunigin; WestBow Press; 2012.
“In the meantime, the pecksniffian French consul was feigning indignation.”
Bob Stockton; Fighting Bob; AuthorHouse; 2011.
Via Wordsmith.org
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