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SANCTIMONY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sanctimony mean?
• SANCTIMONY (noun)
The noun SANCTIMONY has 1 sense:
1. the quality of being hypocritically devout
Familiarity information: SANCTIMONY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being hypocritically devout
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
sanctimoniousness; sanctimony
Hypernyms ("sanctimony" is a kind of...):
hypocrisy (insincerity by virtue of pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do not really have)
Derivation:
sanctimonious (excessively or hypocritically pious)
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