sanctimonious
sanctimonious
definition
adjective
what happened to all the sanctimonious talk about putting his family first?
making a show of being morally superior to other people.
example
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.
The priests and priestesses are pious, 'sanctimonious' bastards.
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.
Never 'sanctimonious' or smug, his art seems founded on a sense of rectitude.
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.
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.
Many of us have tired of his 'sanctimonious' , smug condescension.
But with this aid went a lot of 'sanctimonious' preaching about the superiority of the American way of life.
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.
Don't give me your 'sanctimonious' , holier-than-thou speech about drinking.
The themes of the film are worn on its striped, embroidered sleeve, and often the script gets preachy with its 'sanctimonious' moralizing.
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.
Even jogging, while seemingly harmless, has encouraged damp, smelly and 'sanctimonious' people to stride down our streets with grinning notions of moral superiority.
I didn't want it to be this 'sanctimonious' , preachy thing.
Sadly this tone of 'sanctimonious' self-righteousness characterises much of the exhibition.
How dare a midwife behave in such a 'sanctimonious' and self-righteous manner.
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.
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.
Lest I be further accused of being 'sanctimonious' or self-righteous, I confess I am no model of student participation.
Fairytales were always a bit of a swindle, bribing us with happy endings to accept their 'sanctimonious' morality.
After the stifling incense-choked 'sanctimoniousness' of American politics, getting back to Britain was like coming up for air.
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.
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.
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.
Finally, this whole business of one man's 'sanctimoniousness' over the issue of ‘walking’ is threatening to get out of hand.
Certainly, Democrats don't own morality, either, but Republicans can't act 'sanctimoniously' on the one hand while brushing aside hypocrisy on the other.
There seemed to be nothing in the music between 'sanctimony' and exacerbation.
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.
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.
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