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On a surface level, this pairing of Trump's open disregard for basic marital morality with Vance's sanctimony is just an extension of the larger incoherence that characterizes this year's Republican National Convention.

From Salon

When you're writing about topics this raw it's easy to slip into humourless sanctimony, but Walker's music is located in compassion, always finding nuggets of hope and happiness in the darkness.

From BBC

His sarcasm, his baiting, his sanctimony, his continued insistence on Facebook and elsewhere that the rioters were in fact “Patriots” and that everyone else was “sheep,” “soft,” “ignorant,” “delusional” — all of it only made A.J. more upset.

It's the revenge of the mediocre, to paint sincere concern about the world as sanctimony.

From Salon

He carried his profound decency very lightly without a hint of sanctimony.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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