sanctimonious
Example Sentences
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And their sanctimonious approach to history becomes very tiresome very quickly.
I dig that kind of culpability: a film that doesn’t point sanctimonious fingers but insists we’re all to blame.
From Los Angeles Times
Straughan’s writing deftly considers the moral crises we’re steeped in today without feeling preachy, which is a considerable achievement given that a film about faith is the perfect excuse to be sanctimonious.
From Salon
"It would be so sanctimonious without any humour in it."
From BBC
Carter also had a self-righteousness that could present as starchy and sanctimonious, a trait he exhibited even in his good works once he left the White House.
From Los Angeles Times
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