sanctimonious
પવિત્રતાનો
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'
પવિત્રતાનો ડોળ કરનારું
example
Even jogging, while seemingly harmless, has encouraged damp, smelly and 'sanctimonious' people to stride down our streets with grinning notions of moral superiority.
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.
The themes of the film are worn on its striped, embroidered sleeve, and often the script gets preachy with its 'sanctimonious' moralizing.
Fairytales were always a bit of a swindle, bribing us with happy endings to accept their 'sanctimonious' morality.
Many of us have tired of his 'sanctimonious' , smug condescension.
Don't give me your 'sanctimonious' , holier-than-thou speech about drinking.
The priests and priestesses are pious, 'sanctimonious' bastards.
Never 'sanctimonious' or smug, his art seems founded on a sense of rectitude.
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.
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.
I didn't want it to be this 'sanctimonious' , preachy thing.
But with this aid went a lot of 'sanctimonious' preaching about the superiority of the American way of life.
How dare a midwife behave in such a 'sanctimonious' and self-righteous manner.
Lest I be further accused of being 'sanctimonious' or self-righteous, I confess I am no model of student participation.
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.
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.
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.
Sadly this tone of 'sanctimonious' self-righteousness characterises much of the exhibition.
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.
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.
There seemed to be nothing in the music between 'sanctimony' and exacerbation.
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.
After the stifling incense-choked 'sanctimoniousness' of American politics, getting back to Britain was like coming up for air.
During the heyday of British colonialism, Rudyard Kipling's ‘Take up the white man's burden’ was an unambiguous expression of the patronising 'sanctimony' that pervaded European thinking towards the peoples of Asia and Africa.
Take a random sample of the furore about drugs in sport, and you will usually find that it tests positive for 'sanctimony' , with a heavy dose of double standards and traces of high-grade idiocy on all sides.
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.
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 Anglican Consultative Council has issued a statement on the divestment controversy which achieves a truly egregious conflation of 'sanctimoniousness' , disingenuousness and sheer moral humbug.
Daytime talk shows, with their orchestrated grievance and 'sanctimony' , serve as ‘show trials’ of the politically incorrect, now largely defined in gender terms.
Yet he said, with a Kafkaesque 'sanctimoniousness' , that he had promised his mother he would make it through to this trial so that he could tell the truth to the parents about their daughters' deaths.
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