Adjective
pecksniffian (comparative more pecksniffian, superlative most pecksniffian)
Of or pertaining to Pecksniffery; unctuously hypocritical; sanctimonious.
Pecksniffian (comparative more Pecksniffian, superlative most Pecksniffian)
Alternative form of pecksniffian
Philadelphia is the most pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world. H. L. Mencken
When Mullan moves on to the author’s use of names, many of which – Pecksniffian, Scrooge, Uriah Heep – have embedded themselves in our language, he shows us Dickens’s notebooks in order, precisely, to catch his thought in the process of forming itself. Source: Internet