Monday, June 06, 2011

Pecksniffian

I awoke this morning to find that today's Dictionary.com word-of-the-day is:

pecksniffian \pek-SNIF-ee-uhn\, adjective:
Hypocritically and smugly affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
Pecksniffian is named after Seth Pecksniff, a character in "Martin Chuzzlewit, a novel" (1843), by Charles Dickens.

This word is quiet humorous to me. Possibly because of my inner twelve year old, but, also, it just looks funny.

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