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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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
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
Instead of replying, sanctimoniously tightening her lips, Sally added nothing to her original statement.
From The Camp Fire Girls Behind the Lines by Margaret O'Bannon Womack Vandercook
