Example sentences for: sanctimonious

How can you use “sanctimonious” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • As we know from the Oscars, it's the sanctimonious stuff that gets rewarded.

  • It is a storm signal, however, that you use the words "racist, restrictive, condemnatory, sanctimonious, and superior" about your wife's faith and her fellow practitioners.

  • ennobling and enriching without being sticky or sanctimonious" (Todd McCarthy, Variety ). (See Edelstein's review and Orion's promotional site.)

  • The villains in this scenario are not the anonymous fuddy-duddies who sit on the ratings board but the sanctimonious hypocrites who preside over some of the country's largest video and media chains.

  • Just days later came his ill-advised assault on Los Angeles Times critic Kenneth Turan's sanctimonious anti- Titanic thumbsucker.


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