sanctimoniously
- a word derived from sanctimonious.
Example Sentences
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You could be watching a 1930s movie as Steven Carpenter sanctimoniously plays the highhanded lawyer Joseph Tooker, crusading to protect a hapless public from being swindled.
From Washington Post • Oct. 5, 2018
Rather than redirecting power, as protest art feels it must do, Linyekula simply soaks it up, bravely, at times violently, and you fear possibly fatally, but never sanctimoniously.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2017
Yes, the U.S. has at least one sanctimoniously wacky couple who claim to be happy as clams restricting themselves to 19th-century technology in their home lives.
From Slate • Feb. 11, 2016
The next day he would be sanctimoniously removed from office and forced to provide a ritualized apology that meant nothing.
From Salon • Aug. 13, 2015
If we love our neighbor we are bound to help him, and neighbor in this sense means anyone who chances to be near us, whether black or white, raggedly disreputable or sanctimoniously frilled.
From Rosemary and Rue by Amber
