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
  • At 71, his only other visible rock-star affectations are a gold stud in one ear and a black beaded bracelet on his left wrist.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2024
  • His eccentricities — once easily dismissed as the affectations of a lonely man — read maniacal.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 25 Oct. 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
  • No hint of dishonesty has tarnished her, and she is pledged to the rule of law.
    Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
  • In any case, withholding specific details or not providing all necessary facts is considered a form of dishonesty.
    Giana Levy, refinery29.com, 29 Oct. 2024
Definition of dishonesty
Noun
  • The series is inspired by the book The Woman Who Fooled the World by journalists Beau Donelly and Nick Toscano, who helped uncover the details of Gibson's deception.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
  • That allowed the filmmakers to carefully choreograph her movements as her candy shop killer creates her lethal deceptions.
    Will Tizard, Variety, 25 Nov. 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
  • The film depicts a struggling impersonator of P. Ramlee, Malaysia’s most famous film director, who lives a life of deceit while trying to pay off debts and save his sister’s life.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Entrepreneurs, as well as their investors, partners, and employees risk becoming complicit in deceit when reality does not meet expectations.
    IESE Business School, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
Definition of deceit
Noun
  • The upshot: a $190-million (some reports place the budget closer to $200 million) jukebox musical with seeming art-house pretensions whose odds of justifying its cost now seem remote.
    Chris Lee, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2024
  • The past month in Lebanon, like the past year in Gaza, has demonstrated that Israel’s leaders have no idealistic pretensions about establishing a new political order in Lebanon or in the Strip.
    Mohanad Hage Ali, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2024
Definition of pretension
Noun
  • Electronic surveillance itself doesn’t make The Conversation a political film; Caul’s paranoia comes from his apolitical pretense.
    Armond White, National Review, 16 Aug. 2024
  • But in his youth lies the reason for anonymity and pretense, Hoback claims.
    Joel Khalili, WIRED, 22 Oct. 2024
Definition of pretense
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