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Recent Examples of sanctimony
Until then, no one should take their sanctimony seriously.
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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
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
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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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sanctimony
hypocrisy
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Jersey sales was probably one of the most egregious hypocrisies of the NCAA’s amateurism rule for student athletes, which stipulated that players were never to benefit financially from their name, image and likeness — even if others did.—
Andrea Williams,
Nashville Tennessean,
24 Oct. 2025
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And in the 1963 Czech cult classic The Cassandra Cat, a tabby exposes the truth by making people’s skin change color based on their moral character — red for love, orange or violet for hypocrisy.—
Steve Garbarino,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Sanctimony.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sanctimony. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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