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Recent Examples of sanctimony
Such sanctimony to think the Gators are positioned to take up Saban's mantle.
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Blake Toppmeyer, The Tennessean, 10 May 2024
This is the Russia—and the Russians—that Obama inherited in 2009: prideful, angry, and in no mood for the sanctimony that came with the new administration’s stress on democracy promotion.
—Robert David English, Foreign Affairs, 10 Mar. 2017
Though Europe and America responded with sanctions and sanctimony, the Kremlin was able to thwart Ukraine’s aspirations for ascension to the European Union and force the West to acknowledge Russia’s opinion on geopolitical affairs.
—Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024
The performances sing, too, with the series making use of Portman’s gift for self-righteous sanctimony and Ingram’s ability to sell both disillusionment and swashbuckling heroism as the situation demands it.
—Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2024
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Blake Toppmeyer, The Tennessean, 10 May 2024
This is the Russia—and the Russians—that Obama inherited in 2009: prideful, angry, and in no mood for the sanctimony that came with the new administration’s stress on democracy promotion.
—Robert David English, Foreign Affairs, 10 Mar. 2017
Though Europe and America responded with sanctions and sanctimony, the Kremlin was able to thwart Ukraine’s aspirations for ascension to the European Union and force the West to acknowledge Russia’s opinion on geopolitical affairs.
—Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024
The performances sing, too, with the series making use of Portman’s gift for self-righteous sanctimony and Ingram’s ability to sell both disillusionment and swashbuckling heroism as the situation demands it.
—Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sanctimony
hypocrisy
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Douglass’s moral indictment against American hypocrisy resonated far beyond its historical moment.—
Ed Gaskin,
Boston Herald,
4 July 2025
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She is principled, willing to speak truth to power, and uses her years of experience in the publishing industry to highlight its absurdities and hypocrisies while also celebrating the work of so many of its workers.—
Literary Hub
July 1,
Literary Hub,
1 July 2025
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