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• n  the quality of being hypocritically devout

• What Wertmuller satirizes here is the peculiar Sicilian confluence of honor and hypocrisy, illegality and sanctimony.
• Mel Gibson's first achievement in "The Passion of the Christ" is to strip the biblical epic of its encrusted sanctimony and show biz.
• Taking a leaf from Chairman Mao, Pocket Books has published Quotations from Mayor Daleya bouquet of bluster, sanctimony and lost battles with the English language.

• sanctimoniousness

News & Articles

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• The Seven Wonders of the (Baseball) World
  It's been a rough week. Since the news broke that Ryan Braun would be suspended for the rest of the season, the nation's sportswriters have gone into overdrive complaining about the state of baseball and its players. At times like these, when every story seems to be filled with anger and outrage, sadness and sanctimony, pessimism and pain, I find it best to look beyond the news of the day for a ...
  July 26, 2013 - SB Nation

Quotes

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• Clarence Thomas in ABC News
  A child of the segregated South, Thomas says he was being pursued "not by bigots in white robes but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony."
• Conrad Black in BusinessWeek
  Black, who is charged with swindling Hollinger out of $84 million, said in the April 2003 e-mail there was "no justification for either the sanctimony or hysteria that has been confected and orchestrated" over management fees paid to a company...
• Tony Abbott in CathNews
  There are no moral problems with the IR laws. A political argument is not transformed into a moral argument simply because it's delivered with an enormous dollop of sanctimony,Mr Abbott said. "I do think that if church men spent more time...