Pecksniff

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A very hypocritical person.

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Etymology

Seth Pecksniff, a sanctimonious surveyor and architect “who has never designed or built anything”, appears in Charles Dickens's novel Martin Chuzzlewit (1844).

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