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Six example sentences with sanctimonious, each labelled with its topic.
The candidate's sanctimonious speech about frugal living landed badly once reporters found the invoices for the chartered jet.
Politics
Dickens gave the schoolmaster a sanctimonious manner, quoting scripture at the boys while serving them the thinnest soup in the county.
Literature
His sanctimonious lectures on recycling would carry further if the family did not fly to three continents each winter.
Environment
The gym's most sanctimonious member lectures everyone about sugar, then orders a sixty-gram protein cookie after class.
Fitness
The memo's sanctimonious tone about integrity rang hollow a week after the firm settled the overbilling case.
Business
The sanctimonious headmaster in the film lectures pupils on honesty while quietly rewriting the school's exam results.
Movies
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