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What does pecksniffian mean?

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At all events, Philadelphia is the most Pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world.
The conclusion was couched in that vein of Pecksniffian benevolence of which we hear so much in life.
He was, after a fashion, a Pecksniffian man, this Henry Ham.
Of course, one should be cautious here, so as not to seem merely puritanical or Pecksniffian.
And even when I come to feel a final incompatibility of temper, Pecksniff was not so Pecksniffian as he has since become.
He posed as the Pecksniffian leader of Reform and the reform he advocated always meant the lash for the man who toils.

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