sanctimonious的意思|sanctimonious的解释-里氏词典

sanctimonious [,sæŋkti'mәuniәs]

a. 假装圣洁的, 假装虔诚的, 假装诚实的

sanctimonious

[ adj ]
excessively or hypocritically pious
<adj.all>
a sickening sanctimonious smile

Sanctimonious \Sanc`ti*mo"ni*ous\, a. [See {Sanctimony}.]
1. Possessing sanctimony; holy; sacred; saintly. --Shak.

2. Making a show of sanctity; affecting saintliness;
hypocritically devout or pious. ``Like the sanctimonious
pirate.'' --Shak.
※ -- {Sanc`ti*mo"ni*ous*ly}, adv. --
{Sanc`ti*mo"ni*ous*ness}, n.

Plucked of its wit and thrust into the 'real' world, the moral schematic of Hare's play seems trite and sanctimonious.
Paul Gigot's comments on the corporate approach to the trade bill (Potomac Watch, June 10) spell out the sanctimonious statements about free enterprise, competition, market economy and free trade.
'I have always pursued the no doubt slightly sanctimonious attitude,' he writes, 'of refusing to be paid for public service.' Yet there must have been more to Goodman than that.
Bayles (taking a deep breath): By the same token, because you don't stand for anybody but yourself, you don't have to deliver the sort of sanctimonious minisermons that make sitcoms so cloying.

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