sanctimonious
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Our TV critic called the documentary static, slow and sanctimonious when it was released last fall and said watching it is as “numbing as a winter at Fort Ticonderoga.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Dahlia Lithwick: In your article, you draw out the fact that lawyers are extremely uneasy about invoking the language of morality, because morality is either too malleable or just sanctimonious and annoying.
From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2026
But Lucy Theo, a psychotherapist, counsellor and mother is urging parents to resist the "sanctimonious" idea that screens are inherently harmful.
From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2025
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 ● Jul. 17, 2025
I can’t say I honestly believe such sanctimonious twaddle.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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