Word of the Day: Sanctimonious

[Ruthanne]

Sanctimonious:

making a show of being morally superior to other people.
"what happened to all the sanctimonious talk about putting his family first?"

 

[Aunt Marg]

I have met more than my fair-share of sanctimonious hypocrites in my day.

 

[Ruthanne]

I wish I hadn't met as many sanctimonious people as I have but that's life for you and often they don't even realize how they are so.

 

[win231]

I've known too many sanctimonious people to count. They're always good for a laugh....especially the "Deeply Religious" ones.

 

[peramangkelder]

Sanctimonious I am not

 

[GeorgiaXplant]

The sanctimonious are not only morally superior, they're financially superior and don't mind letting all of us who are, um, less fortunate, know it. Less fortunate, of course, depends upon interpretation.

The sanctimonious among us do a lot of brag-plaining and lots of "Guess what I got/where I'm going/what I did" complete with photos of pricey items/trips/events and sometimes bold mention of the actual cost.

Try to cut the sanctimonious some slack because they're probably so used to being overprivileged, self-absorbed, patronizing, self-righteous and smug that they're clueless or just plain tone deaf or both.

 

[Farrah Nuff]

Sometimes I think that the sanctimonious among us
pretend not to be but we can see right through them.

 

[Wren]

If they are as sanctimonious socially as they are at work, little wonder they have no friends’

 

[Pappy]

My Army drill Sargent was a sanctimonious jerk. Or I thought so at the time.

 

[Amelia B]

I love that word. It has infected a lot of people lately. I was that way sometimes when I was young, but life has humbled me.

 

[Right Now]

Her sanctimonious attitude only hid in herself what the rest of us actually saw.

 

[Wren]

I love that word. It has infected a lot of people lately. I was that way sometimes when I was young, but life has humbled me.

I think, like stupidity, sanctimony is a phase lots of young people go through, most grow out of it, for others it’s terminal.....

 

[Bella]

Priscilla always jumps on her sanctimonious soapbox whenever alcohol is brought up to preach about the "evils" of drinking.

 

[Lavinia]

There are many sanctimonious hypocrites around, people who go to church every week but do nothing to help others.