Usually means: Self-righteousness, often hypocritically expressed.
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  1. sanctimony: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sanctimony: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sanctimony: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sanctimony: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. sanctimony: Wordnik
  7. sanctimony: Wiktionary
  8. sanctimony: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. sanctimony: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. sanctimony: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. sanctimony: Dictionary.com
  12. Sanctimony (film), Sanctimony: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Sanctimony: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. sanctimony: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. sanctimony: Rhymezone
  16. Sanctimony: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. sanctimony: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. sanctimony: Free Dictionary
  19. sanctimony: Mnemonic Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (sanctimony)

▸ noun:  A hypocritical form of excessive piety, considered to be an affectation merely for public show.

Similar:
sanctimoniousness, piosity, baroque piety, sacerdotage, pharisaism, declamation, sycophantry, pseudoism, sycophantism, pulpitism, more...

Opposite:
humility, modesty

Types:
holier-than-thou, holier-than-me, more...

Adjectives:
such, austere, religious, moral, certain, sacerdotal, much, deceptive, trivial, puritan, untimely



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Similar:
sanctimoniousness, piosity, baroque piety, sacerdotage, pharisaism, declamation, sycophantry, pseudoism, sycophantism, pulpitism, more...

Opposite:
humility, modesty

Types:
holier-than-thou, holier-than-me, more...

Adjectives:
such, austere, religious, moral, certain, sacerdotal, much, deceptive, trivial, puritan, untimely



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