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Definition of sanctimonious:

  • (adjective) excessively or hypocritically pious; "a sickening sanctimonious smile"

Sentence Examples:

The chaplain of the ship was not more grave and sanctimonious than he.

I ought to have known better than to have trusted you to that sanctimonious idiot.

What's the matter with you; trying to be sanctimonious?

What a sanctimonious old fraud he must have been, if he looked anything like his pictures!

Gladstone was the patron of his sanctimonious father.

You and the rest of those sanctimonious bastards trying to railroad that woman.

What is this sanctimonious talk in prose and verse in England about Texas?

Let me not hear of it,' cries mamma, in a sanctimonious panic.

He can lament the decay of piety with the most sanctimonious.

Who exhibited sanctimonious satisfaction over a meal?

With that he rolled up his eyes and looked sanctimonious.

Yes, I do say 'no use', Carrie Turner, so don't be sanctimonious.

He only got what he deserved, the hard, sanctimonious sneak!

I feel so sanctimonious it hurts.

Redress of political wrongs is not the fruit of grim and sanctimonious silence.

One of our own constables with a very sanctimonious face was also there.

With her sanctimonious air, who would have expected it?

Our discovery of the map took away the old man's sanctimonious dignity.

I called there, looking as sanctimonious as I could.

Darling, with a sanctimonious look on her pretty face.

There were times, however, when beauty appealed to the sanctimonious James.

He kept trying to push that woman away, crowding up to him with her sanctimonious face.

That dear, sanctimonious Uncle Peter would scent mischief, and my chances would be over.

It's nothing but sanctimonious bunk.

"Oh, he'll do as well by her as any sanctimonious guy."

Yet for weeks he must have lied with a grim and sanctimonious face.

The Levite is behind, engaged in sanctimonious prayer.

The fact is, I'm tired of seeing his solemn, sanctimonious face here every night.

Nevertheless, while still comparatively young, he himself adopted the sanctimonious style.

Look at the snake on his sanctimonious countenance.

There can be nothing more terrible than to be married to a sanctimonious saint.

The sanctimonious crooks profit.

There was nothing sanctimonious about Felicia's handling of them.

Victory, which would have made the English sanctimonious, made them aggressive.

I should leave that for the religious papers and a few of the sanctimonious dailies.

Healthy, and as sanctimonious as John, from the looks of you.

One great hindrance to Sunday school work is its pious and sanctimonious tendency.

Whither this progress has led, we can see by the sanctimonious frauds with the halo!

The sanctimonious partner was the worst of the lot.

You are too sanctimonious by half, and you will find it out some day.