10 Sentences With "Pecksniffian"

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He was, after a fashion, a Pecksniffian man, this Henry Ham.
Piety was certainly hers, in a Pecksniffian sense, but the commercial instinct leavened the loaf.
Of course, one should be cautious here, so as not to seem merely puritanical or Pecksniffian.
At all events, Philadelphia is the most Pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world.
The conclusion was couched in that vein of Pecksniffian benevolence of which we hear so much in life.
But there is something quite pestilently Pecksniffian about shrinking from a hard task on the plea that it is not hard enough.
And even when I come to feel a final incompatibility of temper, Pecksniff was not so Pecksniffian as he has since become.
He posed as the Pecksniffian leader of Reform and the reform he advocated always meant the lash for the man who toils.
But there is something quite pestilently Pecksniffian about shrinking from a hard task on the plea that it is not hard enough.
The Artful Dodger from Oliver Twist. His dialect is rooted in Cockney English. His characters were often so memorable that they took on a life of their own outside his books. "Gamp" became a slang expression for an umbrella from the character Mrs Gamp, and "Pickwickian", "Pecksniffian", and "Gradgrind" all entered dictionaries due to Dickens's original portraits of such characters who were, respectively, quixotic, hypocritical, and vapidly factual.