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Meanings of sanctimony in inglés

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The quality of being hypocritically devout.

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Usage of sanctimony in inglés
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My recollection is of a place of mediocre aspiration, smugness and sanctimony.
The Irish Times
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It combined sanctimony, decadence, insecurity and snobbery in a weird, neurotic brew.
Perdido Street Station
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Shouldn't that cover over everything else in a blanket of sanctimony?
Dexter is Delicious: A Novel
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Nowadays, however, film fans have to endure sanctimony and partisan lectures from disingenuous egomaniacs.
The Irish Times
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It would take a heart of immense sanctimony not to be able to empathise.
The Guardian
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Intrenched respectability, for the most part, came forth to join sanctimony with Tammany scoundrelism.
Great Fortunes from Railroads
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Surely these terms of judgment are too blunt with overuse and sanctimony to be penetrating.
The new yorker
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In the aftermath of Paris, there was plenty of sanctimony about the lack of coverage from Lebanon.
The South African
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That it is still around says something for the boundless appetite for brainless sanctimony in this country.
The Irish Times
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Truly, I was at least as fed up with Forerunner sanctimony as ever....
Halo Cryptum
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He was certainly a hater of conventions, had no patience with sanctimony and bibliolatry, and was perhaps irreverent.
Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume III, Part 1: 1900-1907
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With a certainty proved by the unforgiving sanctimony of her mother's expression, Andrea knew she'd made the right decision.
The blackstone chronicles
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Apparently breaking windows is OK, but refusing to put up with sanctimony from an ugly fat bitch is not.
Assholes finish first
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Stewart's sharpest detractors judged him too dull, while others said he had struck the ideal balance between satire and sanctimony.
Reuters
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There are dozens more like it in the Imperial War Museum's archives, plain and honest, with no pomp or sanctimony.
The Guardian
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His sanctimony is boundless.
Scarlet
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