How to Use sanctimony in a Sentence

sanctimony

noun

• Folks involved in funding this lied about it, and with sanctimony, for a year.
  — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 27 Oct. 2017
• And if two judges played selective sanctimony and walked off the stage?
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Feb. 2022
• The era of sanctimony has, in the past few years, given way to a dawning skepticism.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2018
• In response, the boy’s mother smacks the white woman, whose sanctimony quickly turns to shock.
  — Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2023
• The sanctimony on all sides can’t hide the fact that this is a raw geopolitical argument.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2023
• Taking the aforementioned steps may not be a panacea for white working class alienation, but would go a long way to stopping the sanctimony scam.
  — Ryan Craig, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
• The sanctimony could perhaps be forgiven if the statement was at least true.
  — Seth Mandel, Washington Examiner, 11 Feb. 2021
• The sanctimony of some greens is truly a renewable source.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 21 Dec. 2012
• Neither of those dishes comes with a hint of sanctimony, or even of prescription; in fact, the menu suggests adding crispy (real) chicken to the salad.
  — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2019
• No sanctimony Other Latter-day Saint athletes had prospered in their sports and been praised far and wide for playing on Sundays.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Sep. 2021
• In this generally sporting tam toss of a memoir, such an assertion lands with the soft plunk of sanctimony.
  — Alexandra Jacobs, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2021
• Dabo Swinney would do well to keep his sanctimony, and his medical opinions, to himself.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 23 Nov. 2020
• No, esteemed language-change denier, I will neither bludgeon you with sanctimony nor shame you with guilt.
  — Gregg Opelka, WSJ, 26 Sep. 2017
• Putin sees Syria as proof that American sanctimony is often not backed by force.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 25 July 2017
• The GOP will surely persist in its sanctimony about balanced budgets, but no one should pay any attention.
  — Eugene Robinson, The Mercury News, 9 Mar. 2017
• True believers like Comey are crucial to honest institutions, and sanctimony is a small price to pay for this.
  — T.a. Frank, The Hive, 4 May 2018
• Rage and sanctimony always spread like a virus, and become stronger with each iteration.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 15 June 2017
• The result is a story that lets its characters think and speak as people do rather than wreathing them in self-correcting sanctimony.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 14 May 2021
• The Zone was meant to step up, not down, to stir thought, to break through tradition and conformity, to punch sacred cows and puncture sanctimony, to praise great performances and criticize lousy ones.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Oct. 2021
• The Sparrow is loathsome, wrapping in sanctimony the same crass power craving that animates many of the show’s characters.
  — Jeremy Egner, New York Times, 5 June 2016
• But Morgan’s never been one to let dialectical coherence get in the way of his sanctimony.
  — Jeremy Egner, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2016
• Top-down, COP-style climate sanctimony is a recipe for resentment, rage and resistance.
  — Wal Van Lierop, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
• Of all the reasons to loathe that noxious loudmouth Sean Hannity, my top choice is that the Fox News host consistently has the nerve to serve his lavish amount of stupidity with sides of hubris and sanctimony.
  — Michael Arceneaux, The Root, 26 May 2017
• Since America’s new Great Wall is the college divide, Colleges and universities have played a key role in this sanctimony story.
  — Ryan Craig, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
• But Gem’s tasting-menu format, with its sombre, methodical coursing, can feel refined to the point of sanctimony.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2018
• So the sanctimony with which Herbstreit spoke about Washington and its respective place in the landscape of college football was upsetting to many.
  — Eric Yates, ajc, 8 Oct. 2017
• Such is the reality The Boys reveals behind the idolatry: greed and grift and outright homicide, all the while preaching exceptionalism and sanctimony to the outside world.
  — Peter Rubin, WIRED, 26 July 2019
• There are laughs, but the prevalent tone is one of discreet compassion, without condescension or sanctimony.
  — Patrick Friel, Chicago Reader, 29 Jan. 2018
• There is such a quick assumption of ill will and an increasing sanctimony and humorlessness that can often seem inhumane.
  — Dave Eggers, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2017
• The rapid team collapse was head-spinning news not only in Australia but also among worldwide fans of cricket, a sport that arrogates to itself a particular moral sanctimony.
  — Damien Cave and Rick Gladstone, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 8 Oct 2024