Yes, another of 2007's reigning words, "pecksniffian" can accurately describe certain elements of our wonderful community. From Wordnik.com. [Paige Donner: W00t! W00t! W00t!] Reference
Labels: Chaucer, Merriam-Webster, pecksniffian, safire, w00t posted by John McGrath @ 1: 47 AM. From Wordnik.com. [m00t] Reference
Labels: Chaucer, Merriam-Webster, pecksniffian, safire, w00t posted by John McGrath @ 1: 47 AM 7 Comments. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference
If we could have more of this pecksniffian garble it enhance the whiff of sanctimony that rises from these eructations like fumes from a distant latrine. From Wordnik.com. [Notes from the British HCR experience] Reference
At all events, Philadelphia is the most pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4. American and English Today. 5. Expletives and Forbidden Words] Reference
The men who do things in the world, the men worthy of admiration and imitation, are men constitutionally incapable of any such pecksniffian stupidity. From Wordnik.com. [Damn! A Book of Calumny] Reference
In the face of contemporary pecksniffian anaesthesia we'll erect a whole gallery of forebears, heros who carried on the struggle against bad consciousness but still knew how to party, a genial gene pool, a rare and difficult category to define, great minds not just for Truth but for the truth of pleasure, serious but not sober, whose sunny disposition makes them not sluggish but sharp, brilliant but not tormented. From Wordnik.com. [home] Reference
It’s hard to envisage a more contemptible, pecksniffian, anti-Christian act, but I expect the scelestious Bird-Patterson duo will find one. From Wordnik.com. [The Diocese of Niagara sinks to newly plumbed depths of infamy « Anglican Samizdat] Reference
(pecksniffian: unctuously hypocritical). From Wordnik.com. [Paige Donner: W00t! W00t! W00t!] Reference
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