sanctimonious
b'\\n \\n \\n Merriam-Webster\'s Word of the Day for July 24, 2024 is:\\n \\n \\n sanctimonious • \\\\sank-tuh-MOH-nee-us\\\\ • adjective Someone described as sanctimonious behaves as though they are morally superior to others. Language or behavior that suggests the same kind of moral superiority can also be described as sanctimonious. // While the subject matter was interesting, I found the presenter\\u2019s sanctimonious tone rather distracting.
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\\u201cSmart and sincere but never sanctimonious, the awareness-raising drama doubles as a public service message of sorts.\\u201d\\u202f\\u2014 Peter Debruge, Variety, 13 Mar. 2024
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There\\u2019s nothing sacred about sanctimonious\\u2014at least not anymore. But in the early 1600s, the English adjective was still sometimes used to describe someone truly holy or pious, a sense at an important remove from today\\u2019s use describing someone who acts or behaves as though they are morally superior to others. (The now-obsolete \\u201cpious\\u201d sense recalls the meaning of the word\\u2019s Latin parent, sanctimonia, meaning \\u201choliness\\u201d or \\u201csanctity.\\u201d) Shakespeare used both the \\u201choly\\u201d and \\u201cholier-than-thou\\u201d senses of sanctimonious in his work, referring in The Tempest to the \\u201csanctimonious\\u201d (that is, \\u201choly\\u201d) ceremonies of marriage, and in Measure for Measure to \\u201cthe sanctimonious pirate that went to sea with the Ten Commandments but scraped one out of the table.\\u201d (Apparently, the pirate found the restriction on stealing inconvenient.)
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