Pecksniffian
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They're officially calling it someone who's very hypocritical, Pecksniffian, based on a Dickens book.
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- adjective Hypocritically benevolent; sanctimonious.
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They're officially calling it someone who's very hypocritical, Pecksniffian, based on a Dickens book.
— CNN Transcript Dec 15, 2007 -
About the catastrophe of the Année Terrible_, his craze for "righteousness" makes him a very little Pecksniffian--one thinks of the Tower of Siloam.
— Matthew Arnold
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- After Seth Pecksniff, a character in Martin Chuzzlewit, a novel by Charles Dickens.
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/ (pĕk-snĭfˈē-ən)/
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