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Everyone is tired of her sanctimonious attitude.sanctimonious = acting morally superior to others
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You do not advance our cause by sanctimoniously refusing to compromise.
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a sickening sanctimonious smile
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...Leon's voice droned on sanctimoniously. (source)sanctimoniously = acting morally superior
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Whenever Walt McCandless, in his stern fashion, would dispense a fatherly admonishment to Chris, Carine, or their half siblings, Chris would fixate on his father's own less than sterling behavior many years earlier and silently denounce him as a sanctimonious hypocrite.† (source)
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They must have met during those days when she'd been playing hookey, from her first school in Toronto, and then later, when she was no longer going to school at all; when she was supposed to be cheering up decrepit old paupers in the hospital, dressed in her prissy, sanctimonious little pinafore, and lying her head off the whole time.† (source)
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You are like Father, stupid and sanctimonious, closing your eyes to everything you do not understand.† (source)
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Keep yer judgments and sanctimony.† (source)
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"There's a process for all of this," the woman replied sanctimoniously.† (source)
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But it was precisely their conformism, their transparent sanctimoniousness, that exasperated Yurii Andreievich.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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"You sanctimonious bas—" Chartrand cut him down with three bullets.† (source)
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Desperate, I knew I was taking a risk, but it was one that seemed minimized if I could cast over it a modest halo of sanctimony.† (source)
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Well, I certainly don't," said Percy sanctimoniously.† (source)
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Tut—tut—tut—sanctimoniousness and stock phrases!† (source)
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He gave Hermione a sanctimonious little nod.† (source)
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That indifference arose in part from the sanctimony of the moralizers.† (source)
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