Sample Sentences forsanctimonious (auto-selected)
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Everyone is tired of her sanctimonious attitude.sanctimonious = acting morally superior to others
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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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Legally, morally, sympathy aside, I will pull madness out by its black root, and I will leave a legacy no man, however sanctimonious, can fault.† (source)
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His frog-like face grew calmer, and even took on a slightly sanctimonious expression.† (source)
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'If thou cost break her virgin knot before all sanctimonious ceremonies may with full and holy rite ...'† (source)
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He was donned in his Sunday garments, with his most sanctimonious and sourest face, and, holding his hat in one hand, and his stick in the other, he proceeded to clean his shoes on the mat.† (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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"There's a process for all of this," the woman replied sanctimoniously.† (source)
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It's the carpets that do it to me, the hush, the sanctimoniousness of it all: galleries are too much like churches, there's too much reverence, you feel there should be some genuflecting going on.† (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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Landers was offering her a way out, and she had to go all sanctimonious.† (source)
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Keep yer judgments and sanctimony.† (source)
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Snobby Price, beaming sanctimoniously, and Jenny Hill, with a tambourine full of coppers, come from the shelter and go to the drum, on which Jenny begins to count the money.† (source)
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But it was precisely their conformism, their transparent sanctimoniousness, that exasperated Yurii Andreievich.† (source)
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Don't you think I know what them sanctimonious folks like your daddy say about me?† (source)
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But there was an immense power in my sanctimony that lent a certain trembling credence to my outbursts.† (source)
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