sanctimoniousness

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B his heated response comes across with more than a whiff of sanctimoniousness, as if enjoying “that area” is simply beyond his comprehension.

From Salon • Jan. 29, 2016

The notes, he wrote, quoting from them, make it clear that Lead Belly “ ‘early decided that he preferred frankness, flesh and the devil to sanctimoniousness without a guitar.’ ”

From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2015

By 1924, Virginia Woolf was complaining about the stuffy, intellectualized sanctimoniousness of those books.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 6, 2014

She seems restricted by the sanctimoniousness of the role.

From Time • Nov. 29, 2

It has been taken by the world to mean sanctimoniousness and not sanctity, and is a term of contempt rather than of admiration on their lips.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII by Maclaren, Alexander