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pecksniffery


adjective (often lowercase)

  1. hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.

adjective

  1. affecting benevolence or high moral principles

adj.1851, after Mr. Pecksniff, unctuous hypocrite in Dickens’ “Martin Chuzzlewit” (1844).

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