Both Uses of
sanctimonious
in
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
- She was born in a hill-smothered Wisconsin village where her father was a prosy minister; she labored through a sanctimonious college; she taught for two years in an iron-range town of blurry-faced Tatars and Montenegrins, and wastes of ore, and when she came to Gopher Prairie, its trees and the shining spaciousness of the wheat prairie made her certain that she was in paradise.†
Chpt 21
- "Sweating sanctimonious bully—my husband's uncle!" thought Carol.†
Chpt 24 *
Definition:
acting morally superior to others