sanctimonious
C1CEFR level
68/100Rarity: rare
FormalRegister
Making a conspicuous and often hypocritical show of moral or religious superiority.
Spare me the sanctimonious lecture about honesty from a man who cheats at cards.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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