Meanings of sanctimoniousness in English

A woman prefers one measure of frivolity to nine measures of Pharisaic sanctimoniousness.

He has a sharp round face which has not been spoiled by sanctimoniousness.

It is its most cherished child, all hypocritical sanctimoniousness notwithstanding.

It was surely hard work, and would naturally issue in a degree of sanctimoniousness and unreality.

It would be a pity to deprive the assembly of such an edifying specimen of sanctimoniousness.

Last week three of his 'prentices bolted because they could not stand his sanctimoniousness any longer.

Your sanctimoniousness shall now have an end.

In Mr. McNair's case, this took the form of divisiveness, capriciousness, sanctimoniousness and, for lack of a better word, tyranny.

Now, if that visitor were an angel, then all you would have is sanctimoniousness, you would learn nothing about anything.

Determine that you will overcome this sanctimoniousness, which is the curse of a great deal of the religion of this day.

With their Voyseyesque white rough-cast architecture and their peasant-style cottage furniture from Heal's, garden-city dwellers could not avoid a certain sanctimoniousness.

The Moors have not yet attained to that state of hypocritical sanctimoniousness in which modern society in civilized lands delights to parade itself.

Long after she had abandoned Benjamin Dorn and his cheap sanctimoniousness, he imagined that she still loved him and looked up to him.

Reaching the suburbs of Khoi, I am initiated into a new departure - new to myself at this time - of Persian sanctimoniousness.

I sympathize with those intellectuals who equate spirituality with sanctimoniousness or sentimental nonsense, and who turn a disgusted back on the whole topic.

Still topping the hypocrites' chart are U2, for their continued sanctimoniousness despite moving their tax affairs to Holland in 2006.