sanctimonious
مدعي التهذيب
definition
adjective
what happened to all the sanctimonious talk about putting his family first?
making a show of being morally superior to other people.
translation of 'sanctimonious'
adjective
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The most common line of attack from these 'sanctimonious' scribes is that the Catholic Church is not a democracy and that so-called a la carte Catholics should get out of the church.
She did not question the fact that the film was intended to portray a truth about 'sanctimonious' priests posing as the saviours of a religious heritage.
The themes of the film are worn on its striped, embroidered sleeve, and often the script gets preachy with its 'sanctimonious' moralizing.
Sadly this tone of 'sanctimonious' self-righteousness characterises much of the exhibition.
Don't give me your 'sanctimonious' , holier-than-thou speech about drinking.
How dare a midwife behave in such a 'sanctimonious' and self-righteous manner.
She somehow fails to mention that his massive highway projects enabled the 'sanctimonious' suburbanites to get out of the city and into the suburbs in the first place.
Fairytales were always a bit of a swindle, bribing us with happy endings to accept their 'sanctimonious' morality.
Even jogging, while seemingly harmless, has encouraged damp, smelly and 'sanctimonious' people to stride down our streets with grinning notions of moral superiority.
There has been a massive growth in recent years of a new type of Irish person - the smug, 'sanctimonious' person who has just moved from a city to what he or she considers the countryside.
If it is, then his comeback should be welcomed, because he does have an opportunity to do something positive, even against the inevitable background of 'sanctimonious' and hypocritical noise.
I didn't want it to be this 'sanctimonious' , preachy thing.
The priests and priestesses are pious, 'sanctimonious' bastards.
Lest I be further accused of being 'sanctimonious' or self-righteous, I confess I am no model of student participation.
Many of us have tired of his 'sanctimonious' , smug condescension.
But we don't need the 'sanctimonious' scolding of a student newspaper editor to tell us voting for a party, any party, is a manifestation of our stupidity and ignorance.
From my experience, hostility coming from the Left is a direct response to the 'sanctimonious' , oppressive dogma and bigotry that emanates from the political Right.
But with this aid went a lot of 'sanctimonious' preaching about the superiority of the American way of life.
Never 'sanctimonious' or smug, his art seems founded on a sense of rectitude.
For example, 'sanctimonious' relief initially greeted a survey that showed the model republic to have got its best support in the referendum from voters in the more affluent urban neighbourhoods.
But bearing witness risks being a self-regarding gesture aimed at 'sanctimoniously' demonstrating one's moral superiority - akin to the self-regarding ‘innocence’ of Bertolucci's protagonists.
Once it had been leaked from supposedly sealed court documents, news agencies were duty-bound, 'sanctimoniously' holding their noses, to put the Vaseline story into the public domain.
After the stifling incense-choked 'sanctimoniousness' of American politics, getting back to Britain was like coming up for air.
Certainly, Democrats don't own morality, either, but Republicans can't act 'sanctimoniously' on the one hand while brushing aside hypocrisy on the other.
The Anglican Consultative Council has issued a statement on the divestment controversy which achieves a truly egregious conflation of 'sanctimoniousness' , disingenuousness and sheer moral humbug.
Finally, this whole business of one man's 'sanctimoniousness' over the issue of ‘walking’ is threatening to get out of hand.
There seemed to be nothing in the music between 'sanctimony' and exacerbation.
Having stayed in this land of elephants and snake charmers for twenty years now, I've become used to this inane exposition of 'sanctimoniousness' .
The newspaper 'sanctimoniously' condemned the slightest failure on the part of the White House to divulge details of the president's sex life or to produce documents on a 20-year-old failed real estate investment.
Some of the explorers died during subsequent skirmishes, but in nothing like the numbers of the natives who suffered from introduced scourges like syphilis, which the French and the British always 'sanctimoniously' blamed on each other.
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