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Definition of sanctimonious in English: sanctimoniousadjective ˌsaŋ(k)tɪˈməʊnɪəsˌsæŋ(k)təˈmoʊniəs derogatory Making a show of being morally superior to other people. 〈贬〉假装圣洁的，伪善的，假装虔诚的 what happened to all the sanctimonious talk about putting his family first? 所有那些关于把他的家庭放在最重要地位的伪善谈话难道都不算数了？ Example sentencesExamples - 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.
- 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.
- Even jogging, while seemingly harmless, has encouraged damp, smelly and sanctimonious people to stride down our streets with grinning notions of moral superiority.
- I didn't want it to be this sanctimonious, preachy thing.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Don't give me your sanctimonious, holier-than-thou speech about drinking.
- Never sanctimonious or smug, his art seems founded on a sense of rectitude.
- 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.
- Lest I be further accused of being sanctimonious or self-righteous, I confess I am no model of student participation.
- 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.
- How dare a midwife behave in such a sanctimonious and self-righteous manner.
- 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.
- Fairytales were always a bit of a swindle, bribing us with happy endings to accept their sanctimonious morality.
- The themes of the film are worn on its striped, embroidered sleeve, and often the script gets preachy with its sanctimonious moralizing.
- The priests and priestesses are pious, sanctimonious bastards.
- Many of us have tired of his sanctimonious, smug condescension.
Synonyms self-righteous, holier-than-thou, churchy, pious, pietistic, moralizing, unctuous, smug, superior, priggish, mealy-mouthed, hypocritical, insincere, for form's sake, to keep up appearances informal goody-goody, pi rare religiose, Pharisaic, Pharisaical, Tartuffian
Derivativesadverbˌsaŋ(k)tɪˈməʊnɪəsliˌsæŋ(k)təˈmoʊniəsli derogatory Certainly, Democrats don't own morality, either, but Republicans can't act sanctimoniously on the one hand while brushing aside hypocrisy on the other. Example sentencesExamples - 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 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.
- 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.
- Some of the explorers died during subsequent skirmishes, but in nothing like the numbers of the natives who suffered from introduced scourges like syphilis, which the French and the British always sanctimoniously blamed on each other.
nounˌsaŋ(k)tɪˈməʊnɪəsnəsˌsæŋ(k)təˈmoʊniəsnəs derogatory 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. Example sentencesExamples - Finally, this whole business of one man's sanctimoniousness over the issue of ‘walking’ is threatening to get out of hand.
- Having stayed in this land of elephants and snake charmers for twenty years now, I've become used to this inane exposition of sanctimoniousness.
- Yet he said, with a Kafkaesque sanctimoniousness, that he had promised his mother he would make it through to this trial so that he could tell the truth to the parents about their daughters' deaths.
- After the stifling incense-choked sanctimoniousness of American politics, getting back to Britain was like coming up for air.
noun ˈsaŋ(k)tɪməniˈsæŋ(k)təˌmoʊni mass nounderogatory The action or practice of acting as if one were morally superior to other people. 〈贬〉假装圣洁的，伪善的，假装虔诚的 they have no shame and turn on the phony sanctimony Example sentencesExamples - 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.
- Take a random sample of the furore about drugs in sport, and you will usually find that it tests positive for sanctimony, with a heavy dose of double standards and traces of high-grade idiocy on all sides.
OriginEarly 17th century (in the sense 'holy in character'): from Latin sanctimonia 'sanctity' (from sanctus 'holy') + -ous. Rhymesacrimonious, antimonious, ceremonious, erroneous, euphonious, felonious, harmonious, parsimonious, Petronius, Suetonius Definition of sanctimonious in US English: sanctimoniousadjectiveˌsaNG(k)təˈmōnēəsˌsæŋ(k)təˈmoʊniəs derogatory Making a show of being morally superior to other people. 〈贬〉假装圣洁的，伪善的，假装虔诚的 what happened to all the sanctimonious talk about putting his family first? 所有那些关于把他的家庭放在最重要地位的伪善谈话难道都不算数了？ Example sentencesExamples - But with this aid went a lot of sanctimonious preaching about the superiority of the American way of life.
- Never sanctimonious or smug, his art seems founded on a sense of rectitude.
- 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.
- Many of us have tired of his sanctimonious, smug condescension.
- 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.
- 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.
- Don't give me your sanctimonious, holier-than-thou speech about drinking.
- I didn't want it to be this sanctimonious, preachy thing.
- How dare a midwife behave in such a sanctimonious and self-righteous manner.
- Fairytales were always a bit of a swindle, bribing us with happy endings to accept their sanctimonious morality.
- 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.
- Sadly this tone of sanctimonious self-righteousness characterises much of the exhibition.
- The themes of the film are worn on its striped, embroidered sleeve, and often the script gets preachy with its sanctimonious moralizing.
- Even jogging, while seemingly harmless, has encouraged damp, smelly and sanctimonious people to stride down our streets with grinning notions of moral superiority.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Lest I be further accused of being sanctimonious or self-righteous, I confess I am no model of student participation.
Synonyms self-righteous, holier-than-thou, churchy, pious, pietistic, moralizing, unctuous, smug, superior, priggish, mealy-mouthed, hypocritical, insincere, for form's sake, to keep up appearances
OriginEarly 17th century (in the sense ‘holy in character’): from Latin sanctimonia ‘sanctity’ (from sanctus ‘holy’) + -ous. |