pecksniffian

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1. Alternative letter-case form of Pecksniffian.

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1. Of or pertaining to Pecksniffery; unctuously hypocritical; sanctimonious.

   We have in this Motion drawn in very wide if somewhat Pecksniffian terms a range of subjects which would allow one to talk about almost any social or economic question.

   1985 January 23, “Harold McMillan, The Earl of Stockton, Social And Economic Policies”, in Hansard

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   He has good cards to play on making Brussels better and slimming the continent's heavyweight welfare states. Both can, not implausibly, be given a New Labourish colouring, though Mr Blair's lectures can sound insufferably Pecksniffian.

   2000 February 24, “Tony Blair takes his time”, in The Guardian