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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—P

Pecksniff

A canting hypocrite, who speaks homilies of morality, does the most heartless things “as a duty to society,” and forgives wrong-doing in nobody but himself. (Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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