adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Don't be so sanctimonious Helen! I'll live my life the way I want to live it.
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Many sanctimonious speeches were made about the need for honesty in government.
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The Principal reacted to the school party with an air of sanctimonious disapproval.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I was about to say, Harry, that I was accused by some friends last night of being sanctimonious .
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I wonder what happened to all the sanctimonious talk about putting his family first for the first time in his life?
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Moodie looked sanctimonious whilst Scawsby could hardly hide his crows of triumph.
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Nowadays he is a sanctimonious old man seemingly unaware of his own involvement in the problems of his family.
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She is also a splendid contrast to the noble-minded and sanctimonious Mrs. Jervis.
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That was a false and sanctimonious puritanism, such as had dogged the Inquisitor's own youth.
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There was considerable pressure for actions against them from a sanctimonious middle class, some of whose members held extraordinary delusions.