Word: sanctimonius
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...argument that Bangladesh's problems must not stem from overpopulation since the city of Freemont, California, is just as crowded and yet sustains a pleasant, middle-class life- style; the idea that most Amazon Indians would rather move out of the rain forest; a description of Thoreau as a "sanctimonius beatnik." Still, O'Rourke is funny. In the Amazon he encounters one Yagua Indian with a grass skirt so elaborate that "he was lucky he hadn't been declared an endangered ecosystem from the waist down...
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