Pecksniffian

When Mullan moves on to the author’s use of names, many of which – Pecksniffian, Scrooge, Uriah Heep – have embedded themselves in our language, he shows us Dickens’s notebooks in order, precisely, to catch his thought in the process of forming itself.

Words like "liar," "rat" and "Pecksniffian" (unctuously hypocritical) are banned.