sanctimoniousness

noun

Definition of sanctimoniousnessnext
as in affectation

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  1. affectation
  2. self-satisfaction
  3. dishonesty
  4. deception
  5. perfidy
  6. deceit
  7. pretension
  8. pretense
Noun
  • Whereas past leading musical ladies have tried to contour their character to their own personality (consider, perhaps, when Emma Watson made sure Belle was wearing boots and not heels), Grande has taken Glinda’s affectations as her own.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Usually in those highly stylised stories, the assassin has some form of unusual affectation.
    Nick Miller, The Athletic, 1 Aug. 2024
Definition of affectation
Noun
  • Megalopolis posits a world of clueless liberal self-satisfaction, missing every point of contemporary alertness to ongoing lawfare and sedition.
    Armond White, National Review, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Nothing was off-limits in Mad, a newsstand stalwart that would reach peak annual sales in the 1970s of 2.5 million issues by delivering belly laughs and self-satisfaction to America’s class clowns through cartoons, parodies, sarcastic characters and an unending stream of gross-out gags.
    Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Sep. 2024
Definition of self-satisfaction
Noun
  • The University of Arkansas has suspended the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity for at least three years after an investigation found violations including hazing, providing alcohol to underage people and dishonesty.
    Alex Golden, Axios, 6 Dec. 2024
  • The president has a long record of dishonesty, about his own biography (which blew up his first presidential campaign in 1988) and especially about the family influence-peddling business that was at the root of Hunter’s tax ...
    Rich Lowry, National Review, 3 Dec. 2024
Definition of dishonesty
Noun
  • If the princess world is all sort of deception, this is no artifice at all.
    Simon Thompson, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
  • So, in the spirit of humoring that little Gremlin, here’s a rundown of some of Pattinson’s most memorable deceptions and dubious claims.
    Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2024
Definition of deception
Noun
  • Putin inundates Ukraine’s airwaves with propaganda about the West’s perfidy, the West’s agonizingly slow and insufficient support of Ukraine, the West’s seeming willingness to bleed Ukraine as a proxy, Zelensky’s anti-democratic centralization of power, and the like.
    Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
  • On March 4, 1798, the first dispatches from France finally arrived and exposed the depths of French perfidy.
    Lindsay M. Chervinsky / Made by History, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024
Definition of perfidy
Noun
  • Its story is already dark and moody with themes of death, grief, deceit, revenge and bug-eating.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 21 Nov. 2024
  • The executive further lauded Rodrigo for fighting for the aforementioned rights, and acknowledging and showing empathy for issues — love, break-ups, learning how to drive, deceit — with which some young people struggle.
    Jennifer Weil, WWD, 18 Nov. 2024
Definition of deceit
Noun
  • To arrive at this integration, however, he must be stripped, like Voss, of his own pretensions and the schisms within his self.
    Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Know your audience, an excitable kind of reader informs the author of a piece that fails to flatter his pretensions or reinforce her most uncharitable assumptions about her political opponents.
    Noah Rothman, National Review, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of pretension
Noun
  • Under the pretense of protecting her family, Emilia sends her wife, Jessi (Gomez), and their children to Switzerland.
    Robert Lang, Deadline, 6 Dec. 2024
  • When Avril moves in with a woman, resorting for a while to the pretense of separate bedrooms, this upheaval in their lives is barely mentioned.
    Charles McGrath, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2024
Definition of pretense
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