What is "sanctimonious"

Usage examples of "sanctimonious".

Americas is only a sanctimonious paraphrase for a policy on the part of this country of political aggrandizement in the Western hemisphere.

For his Truth-Reading ability also told him that Jerowen was telling the truth and the sanctimonious Paulin of Ramos was not.

Nobody left onstage but a few of his pals from the pula, toasting their garlic sausages and warming themselves like sanctimonious Parsees around the embers of their fiendish bone-fires, as they are properly called, according to Saint Elmo of the Smoldering Ecstatics, or else it was Saint Anthony the Great in his bone-on fever.

Still, the roofies convinced the prosecutor, a sanctimonious preppie, that Mickey Pechter was a victim.

See now, I said well, thou art the very fellow of the sages of Chincholi: a city, into which on a day there came a certain sanctimonious ascetic, called Pinga, from the colour of his hair.

The Reverend Raymond Reece was a sanctimonious sapskull with the most deplorable Romish tendencies, but no one else had offered him a living and after all, he was family.

Hell, when it was just Dorrity and Stetch, I knew we needed some noble motives around here, so we could retain our sanctimonious manner.

Aw hate fowk sanctimonious, whose humility is pride, Who, when they see a chap distressed, pass by on tother side!

In only three hundred of their years they had become almost as great a nuisance as the sanctimonious Kanten, or the devil-trickster Tymbrimi!

Tigg and Mark Tapley, the youthful Bailey, Charity with upturned nose, the sanctimonious Mercy and her Pecksniffian airs were all made up to perfection.

Hawthorne made this ucking sanctimonious speech about press freedom, then he took is old friend Melrose into a comer and really laid into him.

For this people, enslaved by the king's cruelty and savage barbarity, were already so degenerate and debased in self consciousness, that men were always and without trouble found, who, in order to please the king and his bloodthirstiness and sanctimonious hypocrisy, degraded themselves to informers, and accused of crime those whom the king's dark frown had indicated to them as offenders.

The Lincoln woman’s recent attempt to sabotage the launching of Morning Star was only the latest in a never-ending series of effronteries committed by Khan’s sanctimonious former associates.

Neither does the flatness of the acting, a style that served the original, but here grows tiresome and imbues Neo and his band of revolutionaries with the sanctimonious stodginess of B-movie saints.

Surely you must see that this pope-holy sanctimonious attitude has a ludicrous as well as a most unamiable side?