Crossword-Solution: SANCTIMONY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sanctimony | n. | Holiness; devoutness; scrupulous austerity; sanctity; especially, outward or artificial saintliness; assumed or pretended holiness; hypocritical devoutness. |
We have 63 clues for the answer “SANCTIMONY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Pretended piety. | 1 answer |
| ritualism | 23 answers |
| anointment | 23 answers |
| demulcent | 24 answers |
| religiosity | 25 answers |
| lubricity | 25 answers |
| cerate | 25 answers |
| ANOINTING | 26 answers |
| lubrication | 26 answers |
| Liniment. | 27 answers |
| Emollient | 27 answers |
| Unguent | 28 answers |
| Unction | 29 answers |
| Lotion. | 30 answers |
| Salve | 33 answers |
| ointment | 34 answers |
| lip service | 37 answers |
| pietism | 40 answers |
| lubricant | 42 answers |
| consecration | 49 answers |
| ___ cream | 52 answers |
| dressing | 53 answers |
| Cant | 55 answers |
| sycophancy | 57 answers |
| deceitfulness | 57 answers |
| deviousness | 57 answers |
| sanctimoniousness | 57 answers |
| perfidiousness | 57 answers |
| shuffling | 58 answers |
| affectedness | 58 answers |
| dupery | 58 answers |
| Unctuousness | 58 answers |
| cozenage | 58 answers |
| untruthfulness | 59 answers |
| simulation | 59 answers |
| Prevarication | 60 answers |
| Falsification | 60 answers |
| showmanship | 60 answers |
| unreliability | 60 answers |
| insincerity | 61 answers |
| faithlessness | 61 answers |
| artificiality | 62 answers |
| quackery | 64 answers |
| Fencing | 65 answers |
| dissimulation | 65 answers |
| Untruth | 65 answers |
| Balm | 66 answers |
| Oil | 67 answers |
| APPLICATION ___ | 68 answers |
| hypocrisy | 68 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETAER
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Sentences with SANCTIMONY (5)
Her pretence is a pilgrimage to Saint Jaques le Grand; which holy undertaking with most austere sanctimony she accomplished; and there residing, the tenderness of her nature became as a prey to her grief; in fine, made a groan of her last breath, and now she sings in heaven.
And priests can rest in sight of it!--They ought to be dead against the sanctimony that believes it excommunicates when it curses.
One was a tall, thin, grave, poplar-tree of a man, clad in sad-coloured clothes and conspicuous for a long rosary of enormous beads which he carried around his neck and which from time to time he handled with ostentatious sanctimony.
Intrenched respectability, for the most part, came forth to join sanctimony with Tammany scoundrelism.
The bishop, who, despite the sanctimony of the Court, and his own stern nature, was (though secretly and decorously) a gallant of great success in other fields than those of Mars [196], sate alone in his pavilion, inditing an epistle to a certain fair dame in Rouen, whom he had unwillingly left to follow his brother.
Quotes with SANCTIMONY (3)
One simple answer is that there has been a massive rise in the incidence of sanctimony and smugness among the successful that has nothing to do with any change in the underlying reality. Rather, it has been stimulated by politicians who have realized that it is possible to win power by recruiting the most economically successful forty per cent or so of the population in a crusade to roll back the gains made by their fellow citizens in the previous forty years. And how better …
The word 'religion' has acquired a very bad name among those who really love truth, justice, charity. It also exhales the musty odor of sanctimony and falsehood.
As for the sanctimony of people who seem blind to the fact that mass murder is still an annual event, look at Cambodia, Rwanda, Darfur, Tibet, Burma and elsewhere-the truer shout is not "Never again" but "Again and again.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1961).