| But there is something quite pestilently Pecksniffian about shrinking from a hard task on the plea that it is not hard enough. |
| Piety was certainly hers, in a Pecksniffian sense, but the commercial instinct leavened the loaf. |
| At all events, Philadelphia is the most Pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world. |
| He was, after a fashion, a Pecksniffian man, this Henry Ham. |
| The conclusion was couched in that vein of Pecksniffian benevolence of which we hear so much in life. |
| He posed as the Pecksniffian leader of Reform and the reform he advocated always meant the lash for the man who toils. |
