sanctimonious
adjective
making a hypocritical show of religious devotion, piety, righteousness, etc..
sanctimoniously
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a word derived from
sanctimonious.
Example Sentences
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Samuel Evans Massengill, was far less emotional, declaring sanctimoniously:
From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2022
We take our pleasure being amused and sanctimoniously scandalized, clucking about the need to be better while not being any better.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2021
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
It’s these ideas—rather than his extraordinarily insightful remarks about particular compositions—that unite Hawke and Bernstein, and this is where Hawke’s approach to his film seems to conform itself sanctimoniously to Bernstein’s thinking.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 14, 2015
"Give it to me to spend on masses?" he asked sanctimoniously.
From If I Were King by Justin McCarthy
