pecksniff

American  

[pek-snif] / ˈpɛk snɪf /

noun

1. a person of Pecksniffian attitudes or behavior.

   a virtuousness that only a pecksniff could aspire to.

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Etymology

Origin of pecksniff

First recorded in 1910–15; see origin at Pecksniffian

Example Sentences

And yet every time someone from my generation talks about how important phones are to democracy, there’s always some old pecksniff primly telling us that our phones don’t give us real democracy.

From Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Doctorow, Cory