PECKSNIFF

PRONUNCIATION: (PEK-snif)

MEANING: noun: A hypocritical person who pretends to have high moral principles.

ETYMOLOGY: After Seth Pecksniff, a character in Charles Dickens’s novel Martin Chuzzlewit (serialized 1843-1844). Earliest documented use: 1844. The adjectival form is pecksniffian.
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