sanctimony

Humor has given way to humorlessness, sarcasm to sanctimony, irony to invective.

We at The Daily Beast seek to provide a counterweight to all this sanctimony.

There was upon his face an expression of extreme sanctimony, which was horribly repellent to the Major.

The debate on the second reading was marked by a little brutality and much sanctimony.

The ecclesiastical93 monitor, from spur to plume a star of sanctimony, was called the chaplain.

The least that can be said is, that it invests the sanctimony of marriage with the air of an illicit amour.

Every respect is shown the memory of the deceased, but there is neither sanctimony nor suppressed sorrow at the funeral service.