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Peck·sniff·i·an  audio  (pk-snf-n) KEY 

ADJECTIVE:
Hypocritically benevolent; sanctimonious.
ETYMOLOGY:
After Seth Pecksniff, a character in Martin Chuzzlewit, a novel by Charles Dickens


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