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Another word for sanctimonious

Adjective

  1. Of or practicing hypocrisy

    2. See also:

    honest

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Another word for sanctimonious

Modifier
    2. See also:

    religious

    hypocritical

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Sentence Examples

  • Instead of the delicious illicit tang of the betting shop or brothel it had the sanctimonious cultural cachet of a collective confessional!

  • Kate shrieks at him and calls him a " sanctimonious cretin " .

  • sanctimonious posturing vented by Emperor Tony in his sad little speech.

  • sanctimonious nitwits are calling for a return to morals based on superstition.

  • sanctimonious cretin " .

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