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What does sanctimony mean?

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Noun
  1. A hypocritical form of excessive piety, considered to be an affectation merely for public show.
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His sanctimony, his false humility, his ingratiating smile, his longing to cut a dash on the international stage are all very hard to endure.
Humor has given way to humorlessness, sarcasm to sanctimony, irony to invective.
The least that can be said is, that it invests the sanctimony of marriage with the air of an illicit amour.
The ecclesiastical93 monitor, from spur to plume a star of sanctimony, was called the chaplain.
We at The Daily Beast seek to provide a counterweight to all this sanctimony.
Worse than this dippy nonsense is the smug hippie sanctimony Glastonbury attracts.

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