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Sanctimony

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Noun

1. sanctimoniousness, sanctimony

the quality of being hypocritically devout

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Sanctimony

see synonyms of sanctimony
noun
1. 
affected piety or righteousness; religious hypocrisy
2.  Obsolete
sanctity

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Sanctimony

see synonyms of sanctimony
n.
Righteousness accompanied by an unwarranted attitude of moral or social superiority; smug or hypocritical righteousness.

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