sanctimoniousness

NOUN
  1. the quality of being hypocritically devout
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How To Use sanctimoniousness In A Sentence

  • Finally, this whole business of one man's sanctimoniousness over the issue of ‘walking’ is threatening to get out of hand.
  • The Anglican Consultative Council has issued a statement on the divestment controversy which achieves a truly egregious conflation of sanctimoniousness, disingenuousness and sheer moral humbug.
  • Having stayed in this land of elephants and snake charmers for twenty years now, I've become used to this inane exposition of sanctimoniousness.
  • Yet he said, with a Kafkaesque sanctimoniousness, that he had promised his mother he would make it through to this trial so that he could tell the truth to the parents about their daughters' deaths.
  • After the stifling incense-choked sanctimoniousness of American politics, getting back to Britain was like coming up for air.
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