Excessively or hypocritically pious.
Synonyms
Examples for "sanctimonious"
Examples for "sanctimonious"
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The problem with January is that they can also be downright sanctimonious.
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Quickly she scurried away from the holy house-andthe curate's sanctimonious stare.
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Travis gave her a sanctimonious look, hiding the BlackBerry screen from view.
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Despite his sanctimonious arrogance, I hoped to God Claudel was right, too.
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To suddenly get sanctimonious about what is published online and called news?
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Neither was there any pharisaical self-exaltation on the part of the rival.
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As Lord Brougham says, we have no right to give ourselves pharisaical airs.
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Russell, he said, had spread broadcast phylacteries, and used his most pharisaical language.
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Why should this pharisaical little bird make one feel a criminal?
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They always were, from first to last, narrow, pedantic, one-sided, legal, technical, pharisaical.
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After the usual amount of pietistic verbiage by way of introduction the Manifesto said:
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They were connected in his memory with atrocious tedium, pietistic insincerity, and humiliating contacts.
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He not only disliked, but openly ridiculed all signs of a special pietistic bearing.
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Dr. Cumming's mind is evidently not of the pietistic order.
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We can think of God's Kingdom and righteousness only in the light of the pietistic.
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Here you see the end of a nation which shares your pietistical aptitudes.
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I present extracts from the account of Cambronne, which he suspects may have given the pietistical Quakers a pain.
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So it is with a pietistical and puristical people-theywill follow some stupid old bellwether because utterly incapable of independent thought, of individual ratiocination.
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With lots of holier-than-thou charitable interests in this here dark continent, right?
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Didn't you hate me for my miserable holier-than-thou preachment that day, Wes?
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She would think about what she'd said without my holier-than-thou response.
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It's not that much holier-than-thou in the plus-size fashion world either.
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With poise and high-paced energy, Church Clothes isn't preachy or holier-than-thou.
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Everyone's out to prove a point in the most self-righteous way possible.
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Feel free to leave indignant and self-righteous comments below-butno spoilers, please.
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It was, of course, inappropriate, and there were shrieks of self-righteous anger.
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He questions everything with vigor as a self-righteous anger smolders within him.
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She always did her Jesus walk when she was feeling particularly self-righteous.
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All these things are full of pharisaic vanity.
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Thus, then, my mother now, commanding that hideous deed with a mind at peace in pharisaic self-righteousness.
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That's the way to inculcate a filthy pharisaic conceit into a child.-Ifthe child ill-treats the cat, say:
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This largely resulted from the Pharisaic instinct that assumes superiority over other men.
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A woman prefers one measure of frivolity to nine measures of Pharisaic sanctimoniousness.
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The Pharisaic school modified this prophetic teaching in two ways.
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What was the condition of acceptance in the Pharisaic church?
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In my unpardonable stupidity and prejudice-ina Pharisaic pride- Ihavecaused Miss Mayhew to offend.
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The Romans allowed him to found a self-governing Pharisaic community at Jabneh, to the west of Jerusalem.
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Self-righteousness would have led me in Pharisaic pride to say, 'Stand aside, I am holier than thou.'
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A Pharisaic attitude is not only highly mischievous in its results, but is here altogether out of place.
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And the Pharisaic community passes by on the other side of the way, in fear of a falling brick.
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Already the fundamental Pharisaic doctrine of the two ages-thepresent age and that which is to come-isin danger.
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In a condition between slumber and waking, she seemed to plead for him before a circle of Pharisaic accusers.
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And side by side with them, apparently, might be found Pharisaic disputants of an older type (iii.
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Agur's third saying has been likewise sadly misconstrued by the ancient Pharisaic controversialist and by his faithful modern successors.