Sanctimony

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Feigned piety or righteousness; hypocritical devoutness or high-mindedness.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A hypocritical form of excessive piety, considered to be an affectation merely for public show.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Holiness; devoutness; scrupulous austerity; sanctity; especially, outward or artificial saintliness; assumed or pretended holiness; hypocritical devoutness.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Piety; devoutness; scrupulous austerity; sanctity.
  • n. The external appearance of devoutness; labored show of goodness; affected or hypocritical devoutness.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the quality of being hypocritically devout
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    hypocrisy   
    Cross Reference
    phony    self-righteous    holier-than-thou   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    holiness    devoutness    sanctity   
    Same Context
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