sanctimonious 的定义
- making a hypocritical show of religious devotion, piety, righteousness, etc.: They resented his sanctimonious comments on immorality in America.
- Obsolete. holy; sacred.
sanctimonious 近义词
self-righteous
更多sanctimonious例句
- I suspect other people in the group may see him as sanctimonious, too.
- My son's father-in-law told me, in a text message to a family group, to “not be so sanctimonious.”
- The sanctimonious, the puritans of all stripes, and the killjoys in general raise the issue annually.
- It is a sanctimonious doctor show combined with a sanctimonious mob drama—and misses the core of the profession.
- One purported fan blogged a review calling the interlude “an interminable and sanctimonious speech.”
- Other terms for Santorum: “religious,” “sanctimonious,” and “God-talker.”
- The pious, sanctimonious Oscar ceremony is how Hollywood wants to see itself.
- This contriver of miracles, of a countenance at once sanctimonious, artful and sly, preceded other prelates carrying banners.
- Just keep up your sanctimonious appearance and stick to your Deacon story, and you'll git off.
- If he was remorseful, so was she; she never wanted to see his sanctimonious face again.
- Most learned, fair, and sanctimonious Princess—Plague, what comes next?
- Of the sanctimonious tone we may say that it has its reward in the almost universal contempt it provokes.