pecksniffery 的定义
- hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
pecksniffery 近义词
等同于 cant
更多pecksniffery例句
- Of course, one should be cautious here, so as not to seem merely puritanical or Pecksniffian.
- He was, after a fashion, a Pecksniffian man, this Henry Ham.
- He posed as the Pecksniffian leader of Reform and the reform he advocated always meant the lash for the man who toils.
- At all events, Philadelphia is the most pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world.
- Piety was certainly hers, in a Pecksniffian sense, but the commercial instinct leavened the loaf.