- Self-righteousness (also
called sanctimony, sententiousness, and holier-than-thou attitudes) is an
attitude and
belief of
moral superiority derived from...
-
expression for an
umbrella from the
character Mrs Gamp, and "Pickwickian", "
Pecksniffian" and "Gradgrind" all
entered dictionaries due to ****ens's
original portraits...
- and Pete
Postlethwaite as Tigg Montague.
George F. Will has
written of
Pecksniffian Comstockery. Berard, Jane H (2007). ****ens and
Landscape Discourse....
-
Expanded Dictionary. P.S.I. & ****ociates. 1991. p. 17. ISBN 0-938261-79-7. "
Pecksniffian".
American Heritage Dictionary of the
English Language (Fourth ed.)....
- hostile) of
others to him.
Leonard Woolf in his
memoirs called Murry "
Pecksniffian". By 1933 his re****tion "had
touched bottom", and
Rayner Heppenstall's...
-
mathematician –
Peano axioms. Mr. Pecksniff,
British literary character –
Pecksniffian Pelagius,
British theologian – pelagianism. Pelé,
Brazilian football...
-
Pauline epistles)
Pavlovian – Ivan
Pavlov (as in
Pavlovian conditioning)
Pecksniffian – Seth Pecksniff, ****ens'
fictional character Pelagian –
Pelagius (as...
- at the port and stated, "Slatter was
standing upon deck
smiling most
Pecksniffianly upon
every one as he p****ed and
saying to the
anguished girls, 'Never...
