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sanctimonious
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    He gave Hermione a sanctimonious little nod.†  (source)
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    Whenever Walt McCandless, in his stern fashion, would dispense a fatherly admonishment to Chris, Carine, or their half siblings, Chris would fixate on his father's own less than sterling behavior many years earlier and silently denounce him as a sanctimonious hypocrite.†  (source)
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    Legally, morally, sympathy aside, I will pull madness out by its black root, and I will leave a legacy no man, however sanctimonious, can fault.†  (source)
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    His frog-like face grew calmer, and even took on a slightly sanctimonious expression.†  (source)
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    Keep yer judgments and sanctimony.†  (source)
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    "There's a process for all of this," the woman replied sanctimoniously.†  (source)
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    It's the carpets that do it to me, the hush, the sanctimoniousness of it all: galleries are too much like churches, there's too much reverence, you feel there should be some genuflecting going on.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    'If thou cost break her virgin knot before all sanctimonious ceremonies may with full and holy rite ...'†  (source)
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    Desperate, I knew I was taking a risk, but it was one that seemed minimized if I could cast over it a modest halo of sanctimony.†  (source)
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    Snobby Price, beaming sanctimoniously, and Jenny Hill, with a tambourine full of coppers, come from the shelter and go to the drum, on which Jenny begins to count the money.†  (source)
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    But it was precisely their conformism, their transparent sanctimoniousness, that exasperated Yurii Andreievich.†  (source)
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    Many of them are sincere, and nearer to the gate of heaven than sanctimonious Mr. Pike, and other long-faced Christians, who see wounded Samaritans, and pass by on the other side.†  (source)
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    But there was an immense power in my sanctimony that lent a certain trembling credence to my outbursts.†  (source)
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