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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.

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On this page you'll find 34 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sanctimonious, such as: hypocritical, insincere, pious, self-satisfied, smug, and stuffy.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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