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skinhellig

“skinhellig” is a Danish word. Its meaning in English:

adjective

  1. sanctimonious, hypocritical

Etymology

From skin- (“false, pretended”) + hellig (“holy”), a calque of German scheinheilig (1580), itself after Dutch schijnheilig (1557). Compare Swedish skenhelig.

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