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Recent Examples of sanctimony
That’s not to denigrate Punch, which is solidly built and well-meaning without sanctimony.
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Sara Holdren, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025
Task subverts expectations without sanctimony.
—Judy Berman, Time, 28 Aug. 2025
Until then, no one should take their sanctimony seriously.
—The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 27 July 2025
How not to hear in his philippic the traces of an OCD inscribed in our cultural DNA, a sanctimony that launched the archetypal act of avoidance that forms our origin myth?
—Andrew Kay, Harpers Magazine, 28 May 2025
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Sara Holdren, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025
Task subverts expectations without sanctimony.
—Judy Berman, Time, 28 Aug. 2025
Until then, no one should take their sanctimony seriously.
—The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 27 July 2025
How not to hear in his philippic the traces of an OCD inscribed in our cultural DNA, a sanctimony that launched the archetypal act of avoidance that forms our origin myth?
—Andrew Kay, Harpers Magazine, 28 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sanctimony
hypocrisy
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Their use of the well-being of Iranians as a justification for spending billions to topple the Islamic regime is just brazen hypocrisy.—
Rafael Perez,
Oc Register,
27 Mar. 2026
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The centuries-old pot-kettle idiom points out hypocrisy — as when one person accuses another of a flaw that afflicts himself.—
George Skelton,
Mercury News,
26 Mar. 2026
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“Sanctimony.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sanctimony. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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