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English
Etymology
Derived from the character Seth Pecksniff in the Charles Dickens novel Martin Chuzzlewit (1843).
Adjective
pecksniffian (comparative more pecksniffian, superlative most pecksniffian)
- Of or pertaining to Pecksniffery; unctuously hypocritical; sanctimonious.
2000 February 24, “Tony Blair takes his time”, in The Guardian: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.
Translations
of or pertaining to Pecksniffery