"pecksniffian" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "Derived from the character Seth Pecksniff in the Charles Dickens novel Martin Chuzzlewit (1843).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more pecksniffian",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most pecksniffian",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "pecksniffian (comparative more pecksniffian, superlative most pecksniffian)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "source": "w"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1985 January 23, “Harold McMillan, The Earl of Stockton, Social And Economic Policies”, in Hansard:",
          "text": "We have in this Motion drawn in very wide if somewhat Pecksniffian terms a range of subjects which would allow one to talk about almost any social or economic question.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000 February 24, “Tony Blair takes his time”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "He has good cards to play on making Brussels better and slimming the continent's heavyweight welfare states. Both can, not implausibly, be given a New Labourish colouring, though Mr Blair's lectures can sound insufferably Pecksniffian.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of or pertaining to Pecksniffery; unctuously hypocritical; sanctimonious."
      ],
      "id": "en-pecksniffian-en-adj-AiKOOBhQ",
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        [
          "Pecksniffery",
          "Pecksniffery"
        ],
        [
          "unctuously",
          "unctuously"
        ],
        [
          "hypocritical",
          "hypocritical"
        ],
        [
          "sanctimonious",
          "sanctimonious"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Pecksniffian"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pecksniffian"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Derived from the character Seth Pecksniff in the Charles Dickens novel Martin Chuzzlewit (1843).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more pecksniffian",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most pecksniffian",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "pecksniffian (comparative more pecksniffian, superlative most pecksniffian)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        "English eponyms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms derived from Dickensian works",
        "English terms with quotations",
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        "Pages with 1 entry",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1985 January 23, “Harold McMillan, The Earl of Stockton, Social And Economic Policies”, in Hansard:",
          "text": "We have in this Motion drawn in very wide if somewhat Pecksniffian terms a range of subjects which would allow one to talk about almost any social or economic question.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000 February 24, “Tony Blair takes his time”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "He has good cards to play on making Brussels better and slimming the continent's heavyweight welfare states. Both can, not implausibly, be given a New Labourish colouring, though Mr Blair's lectures can sound insufferably Pecksniffian.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of or pertaining to Pecksniffery; unctuously hypocritical; sanctimonious."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Pecksniffery",
          "Pecksniffery"
        ],
        [
          "unctuously",
          "unctuously"
        ],
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          "hypocritical",
          "hypocritical"
        ],
        [
          "sanctimonious",
          "sanctimonious"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "Pecksniffian"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pecksniffian"
}