Adjective:

धर्मध्वजी, दांभिक,

sanctimonious's Usage Examples:

"Who"s worse: Camille Paglia, sanctimonious liberals, or my sniveling self? (blog)".

Byron"s moral dilemma, as a powerful means of blasting once more that sanctimoniousness which has always been fashionable in Britain.

words and sexually explicit scenes, as well as sensitizing Americans to sanctimonious hypocrisy.

his finest performance in recent memory, bringing to levelheaded, unsanctimonious life a character who offers a glimmer of hope and caring within a world.

Canadian literary atmosphere, which continues to stink of parlor radical sanctimoniousness.

Self-righteousness, also called sanctimoniousness, sententiousness and holier-than-thou attitudes is a feeling or display of (usually smug) moral superiority.

in investigations, to the point of being considered sanctimonious and priggish, especially by Harm.

The Comte de Granville, unhappily married to a sanctimonious woman, falls in love with this grisette.

kingpin" (from mugumquomp, "war leader"), implying that they were "sanctimonious" or "holier-than-thou" in holding themselves aloof from party politics.

sources, Vidor attempts to entertain the audience with a light farce and sanctimoniously impress them with spectacular natural scenery, the latter "which is.

For over thirty years we have sanctimoniously and dishonestly pretended respect, if not awe, for an organisation.

penetrating annalistic account of a secular ruler in unecclesiastical, unsanctimonious terms.

He is presented as a sanctimonious exploiter of her memory, who ill-treated her during their association.

Synonyms:

pietistic, pietistical, pious, pharisaical, self-righteous, holier-than-thou, pharisaic,

Antonyms:

impiety, profane, wicked, worldly, impious,