sanctimony

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Recent Examples of sanctimony 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 After all the criticism, the skepticism, the downright sanctimony about the most controversial topic in New York sports — the exhausting, overburdening minutes — the Knicks lost a game, the narrative will go, because neither Hart nor Brunson played enough of crunch time. Fred Katz, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025 And Joe Biden’s sanctimony and moralizing seem less jarring when Americans recall that Carter until recently continued to teach a Sunday school class in his home church in Plains, Ga. Philip Elliott, TIME, 9 Jan. 2025 Such sanctimony to think the Gators are positioned to take up Saban's mantle. Blake Toppmeyer, The Tennessean, 10 May 2024 See All Example Sentences for sanctimony
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hypocrisy
Noun
  • Okatsuka, meanwhile, mocked the hypocrisy of the participating comedians and even shared details of her offer on social media, which came with content restrictions.
    Jessica Wang, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Drawing on Riefenstahl’s own words to reveal hypocrisy and self-mythologizing, the film utilizes archival footage and photographs to make history feel alive, immediate, and unsettlingly urgent.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 28 Sep. 2025

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