pecksniffian

See also: Pecksniffian

English

Derived from the character Seth Pecksniff in the Charles Dickens novel Martin Chuzzlewit (1843).

pecksniffian (comparative more pecksniffian, superlative most pecksniffian)

Of or pertaining to Pecksniffery; unctuously hypocritical; sanctimonious.
- 1985 January 23, “Harold McMillan, The Earl of Stockton, Social And Economic Policies”, in Hansard‎^[1]:
  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.
- 2000 February 24, “Tony Blair takes his time”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:
  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.

of or pertaining to Pecksniffery