pecksniffian

“Yes, another of 2007's reigning words, "pecksniffian" can accurately describe certain elements of our wonderful community.”

Paige Donner: W00t! W00t! W00t!

“If we could have more of this pecksniffian garble it enhance the whiff of sanctimony that rises from these eructations like fumes from a distant latrine.”

Notes from the British HCR experience

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Archive 2007-12-01

“At all events, Philadelphia is the most pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world.”

Chapter 4. American and English Today. 5. Expletives and Forbidden Words

“The men who do things in the world, the men worthy of admiration and imitation, are men constitutionally incapable of any such pecksniffian stupidity.”

Damn! A Book of Calumny

“In the face of contemporary pecksniffian anaesthesia we'll erect a whole gallery of forebears, heros who carried on the struggle against bad consciousness but still knew how to party, a genial gene pool, a rare and difficult category to define, great minds not just for Truth but for the truth of pleasure, serious but not sober, whose sunny disposition makes them not sluggish but sharp, brilliant but not tormented.”

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“It’s hard to envisage a more contemptible, pecksniffian, anti-Christian act, but I expect the scelestious Bird-Patterson duo will find one.”

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