Thesaurus / sanctimony
FEEDBACKHow to use sanctimony in a sentence
Partly it’s the sanctimony, the assertion of personal freedom over any sense of public good.
DO THE UNVACCINATED DESERVE SCARCE ICU BEDS?NANCY GIBBSSEPTEMBER 1, 2021WASHINGTON POSTI think there is a lot of sanctimony and politics being played in this.
LATE-NIGHT HOSTS, TV PUNDITS SLAM CRUZ FOR TAKING ‘THE WORLD’S SHORTEST SPRING BREAK’ TO CANCUNTEO ARMUSFEBRUARY 19, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThere was upon his face an expression of extreme sanctimony, which was horribly repellent to the Major.
A WOMAN'S BURDENFERGUS HUMEThe debate on the second reading was marked by a little brutality and much sanctimony.
THE LIFE OF WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE, VOL. 1 (OF 3)JOHN MORLEYThe ecclesiastical93 monitor, from spur to plume a star of sanctimony, was called the chaplain.
THE ARMY MULE AND OTHER WAR SKETCHESHENRY A. CASTLEThe least that can be said is, that it invests the sanctimony of marriage with the air of an illicit amour.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 67, NUMBER 414, APRIL, 1850VARIOUSEvery respect is shown the memory of the deceased, but there is neither sanctimony nor suppressed sorrow at the funeral service.
UNDER FOUR ADMINISTRATIONSOSCAR S. STRAUSOstentatious sanctimony may deceive man, but it cannot deceive God.
THE LADIES' GUIDE TO TRUE POLITENESS AND PERFECT MANNERSELIZA LESLIEWORDS RELATED TO SANCTIMONY
- affectation
- bad faith
- bigotry
- cant
- casuistry
- deceit
- deception
- dishonesty
- display
- dissembling
- dissimulation
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- false profession
- falsity
- fraud
- glibness
- imposture
- insincerity
- irreverence
- lie
- lip service
- mockery
- pharisaicalness
- pharisaism
- phoniness
- pietism
- quackery
- sanctimoniousness
- sanctimony
- speciousness
- tartuffery
- unctuousness
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.