adjective

• Affecting benevolence or high moral principles.

  ‘he adopted a Pecksniffian tone’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The high light was Newton Dodge's repeated assertion, in his usual Pecksniffian manner, that his head had not grown any smaller, he had measured it!.’
  • ‘In general, however, this book is free of his usual penchant for Pecksniffian attacks on ‘liberals,’.’

  Synonyms

  prim and proper, prim, proper, prudish, priggish, puritanical, moralistic, prissy, mimsy, niminy-piminy, shockable, Victorian, old-maidish, schoolmistressy, schoolmarmish, governessy