sanctimonious

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As I continue to listen to these self-righteous, sanctimonious, and preposterously hypocritical conservatives

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  1. adjective Feigning piety or righteousness: "a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg that looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity” (Mark Twain).

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  • Before his marriage, Mr. Weld lodged, on principle, in a colored family in New York, even submitting to the inconvenience of having no heat in his room in winter, and bearing with singular charity and patience what Sarah calls the sanctimonious pride and Pharisaical aristocracy of his hosts. —  The Grimke Sisters
  • And the pompous, the priggish, and the sanctimonious are pricked and deflated by Rumpole's deadly combination of wit, bluster, and knowledge of the law Rumpole may be the only barrister who finds himself simultaneously defending a boy accused of violating an ASBO (Anti-Social Behavior Order), defending a man accused of murdering a Russian prostitute, and defending himself against an ASBO brought by his own colleagues. —  AHMM,May2008
  • The argument is sanctimonious, and its arrogance angers the public further. —  Streetsblog New York City
  • As I continue to listen to these self-righteous, sanctimonious, and preposterously hypocritical conservatives (and yes -- most of them are Republicans) pontificate on the horribleness, the insanity, the disastrous level of debt we are heaping upon future generations, I want to just puke. —  AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
  • I hate every single one of you sanctimonious, meddlesome fuckwits. —  How Now Brownpau
 

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  1. from Middle Latin *sanctimoniosus, from Latin sanctimonia, holiness: see sanctimony.
 

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/sæŋktɪˈmoʊnɪəs/
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