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Recent Examples of sanctimony
Task subverts expectations without sanctimony.
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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
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
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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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sanctimony
hypocrisy
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Both had spent their entire lives chafing under the terror of bigotry, and from the hypocrisy being exposed by a heinous, toxic legacy of institutionalized double standards.—
John E. Green,
Time,
1 Feb. 2026
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But even at a progressive institution like Antioch, Coretta encountered the quiet betrayal of liberal hypocrisy.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Jan. 2026
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