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It would scarcely concern a Pecksniff that we suspected that he is not what we had first thought-- or hoped for.
For years and years, Merriam-Webster has held out an explicit definition of Pecksniffian , one precisely consistent with the Pecksniff we know, and usage has squared with that definition.
Seth Pecksniff could no more undergo a post-mortem metamorphosis than John Calvin.
I first noticed it in the early 1980s, coincident with the apex of the looting of the savings and loans, about when Merriam-Webster discovered the tolerable side of Seth Pecksniff.
Dickens certainly was not wishy-washy when it came to developing characters, and Seth Pecksniff was definitely not just a quick study among the cast in Martin Chuzzlewit .