SANCTIMONIOUS


Meaning of SANCTIMONIOUS in English

adjective

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Don't be so sanctimonious Helen! I'll live my life the way I want to live it.

Many sanctimonious speeches were made about the need for honesty in government.

The Principal reacted to the school party with an air of sanctimonious disapproval.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

I was about to say, Harry, that I was accused by some friends last night of being sanctimonious .

I wonder what happened to all the sanctimonious talk about putting his family first for the first time in his life?

Moodie looked sanctimonious whilst Scawsby could hardly hide his crows of triumph.

Nowadays he is a sanctimonious old man seemingly unaware of his own involvement in the problems of his family.

She is also a splendid contrast to the noble-minded and sanctimonious Mrs. Jervis.

That was a false and sanctimonious puritanism, such as had dogged the Inquisitor's own youth.

There was considerable pressure for actions against them from a sanctimonious middle class, some of whose members held extraordinary delusions.

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