Pecksniffian (gosh, does this describe anyone we know??)

[niyad]

Pecksniffian
[pek-snif-ee-uhn]
This silly-sounding word comes from a character in Charles Dickens’s novel Martin Chuzzlewit named Seth Pecksniff. Pecksniff is an unscrupulous architect who takes advantage of his students by passing off their designs as his own and profiting from them. Despite this, Pecksniff believes he is morally superior and is providing a beneficial service. Thus, the adjective Pecksniffian means “hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.”

[Chan790]

1. Yes.