pecksniffs

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The American puritans, moral pecksniffs all, are resurgent for the time being.

"Oppose Wisconsin Checkpoints." Ann Althouse 2009
Usage pecksniffs who try to tell you that colorful, unambiguous, expressive turns of phrase or sentence structure are incorrect are the worst kind of bores.

Boing Boing: July 9, 2006 - July 15, 2006 Archives 2006
We even inveigle our citizens to become amateur curtain-twitchers and pecksniffs, demanding that they report "suspicious" activity to the authorities.

Notes and Comments: 18/06/2008 David Hadley 2008
We even inveigle our citizens to become amateur curtain-twitchers and pecksniffs, demanding that they report "suspicious" activity to the authorities.

Archive 2008-06-01 David Hadley 2008
People in the entertainment industry have long know that Lieberman is happy to curry the favor of the universal pecksniffs by smashing free speech.

Firedoglake » Joe Lieberman and the American Taliban 2006
Tell me again how John Kerry, with all his drawbacks, would be "barely any improvement" on this crowd of censorious, vengeful, authoritarian pecksniffs.

Boing Boing: February 8, 2004 - February 14, 2004 Archives 2004
The reckless impeachment perpetrated by these pecksniffs crippled the Clinton presidency at a fateful timeâwhen Osama Bin Laden was about to target the "homeland."

Archive 2004-06-01 2004