sanctimonious
پاھنڈی
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
Fairytales were always a bit of a swindle, bribing us with happy endings to accept their 'sanctimonious' morality.
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.
Even jogging, while seemingly harmless, has encouraged damp, smelly and 'sanctimonious' people to stride down our streets with grinning notions of moral superiority.
The themes of the film are worn on its striped, embroidered sleeve, and often the script gets preachy with its 'sanctimonious' moralizing.
I didn't want it to be this 'sanctimonious' , preachy thing.
How dare a midwife behave in such a 'sanctimonious' and self-righteous manner.
Many of us have tired of his 'sanctimonious' , smug condescension.
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.
The priests and priestesses are pious, 'sanctimonious' bastards.
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.
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.
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.
Never 'sanctimonious' or smug, his art seems founded on a sense of rectitude.
But with this aid went a lot of 'sanctimonious' preaching about the superiority of the American way of life.
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.
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.
Lest I be further accused of being 'sanctimonious' or self-righteous, I confess I am no model of student participation.
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.
Don't give me your 'sanctimonious' , holier-than-thou speech about drinking.
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 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.
Certainly, Democrats don't own morality, either, but Republicans can't act 'sanctimoniously' on the one hand while brushing aside hypocrisy on the other.
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.
Ah, the joys of Washington: that wonderful city where 'sanctimony' and intellectual dishonesty are treated like virtues instead of vices.
Having stayed in this land of elephants and snake charmers for twenty years now, I've become used to this inane exposition of 'sanctimoniousness' .
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 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.
Finally, this whole business of one man's 'sanctimoniousness' over the issue of ‘walking’ is threatening to get out of hand.
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