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    [Adjective]  | "Peck*sniff*ian" | \ pek-ˈsni-fē-ən \


    1: unctuously hypocritical : pharisaical


    Origin: 1844 ;

     Seth Pecksniff, character in Martin Chuzzlewit (1843–44) by Charles Dickens;

    [Adjective]  | "Pecksniffian" 


    1: not being or expressing what one appears to be or express;


      * e.g., " ... a Pecksniffian pandering to religious conservatives, especially in the weeks before the election "





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