| 词汇 | example_english_sanctimonious |
| 释义 | Examples of sanctimoniousThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. We saw a lot of rather sanctimonious nonsense in the press about that at times. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To people outside, some of us may appear to be sanctimonious. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There may be some who are sanctimonious, but whether that can be described as mob rule is a different matter altogether. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Why, then, is there all this high, sanctimonious self-righteousness from the other side? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I myself see nothing in the practice to be worried about, and far less to be sanctimonious about. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have always been against independent pay review bodies, royal commissions and all other forms of sanctimonious wisdom. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have just heard a self-serving, self-seeking, sanctimonious and tawdry little speech. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Before he adopts too sanctimonious a tone, he should recognise that fact. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is nothing worse than a sanctimonious mob on such occasions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He could not rise above his normal litany of sanctimonious humbug, tedentious statistics and scurrilous scares. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What we find most difficult to accept is the sanctimonious self-congratulation and the hyping up of the extent of the increase in the money provided. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What is particularly nauseating is the sanctimonious spirit in which this has been done. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I shall not go as far as saying that that remark was a little sanctimonious. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A sanctimonious code of that kind is no good at all unless it is put into operation by the gentlemen concerned in the advertising industry. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In reply today he referred to the sanctimonious nature of my question. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We tend to be very hypocritical and sanctimonious about it, but can we say that on balance we have given up anything at all? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The old rule was a piece of sanctimonious hyprocrisy and held in general derision by both prison officers and prisoners alike. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not want to appear to be in any way unctuous or sanctimonious, but this is a matter of public duty. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He made a disagreeable, sanctimonious and arrogant beast of a speech. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We can understand opposition; we can understand argument against our case, but we do not want this gratuitous sympathy given with sanctimonious unction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I consider their attempts to say that they are caring as nothing more than sanctimonious humbug. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Not even on the most sanctimonious and regional grounds could such an order ever have been justified. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What sanctimonious humbug we have heard about the exploitation of loopholes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We need to avoid being overly sanctimonious on these issues. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I go so far as to say that it is sanctimonious humbug to suggest that it was anything else. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I suspect that it may have been the slightly sanctimonious nature of his speech that did for my daffodil. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He has overlaid this subject with a lot of sanctimonious nonsense. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I also hope that he will not be unduly sanctimonious. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Sanctimonious criticism is there by the bucketful, but action is pitifully absent. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 On an issue of such importance, it is disgraceful that that party, which is always so sanctimonious about social security, should not be represented here today. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All this talk of high-flown, altruistic ideals in wanting to provide transport to get people to the polls is so much poppycock, sheer hypocrisy and sanctimonious humbug. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Instead, at that time they substituted the smug, sanctimonious noises about lame ducks, and, in a frenzy of capitalist puritanism, cancelled anything to do with a subsidised service. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They, it was, who had this constructive and creative tolerance, and it is against them alone that we have launched this barrage of sanctions and sanctimonious condemnation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Sanctimonious people then wanted those stories banned. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I remember with some nausea the pre-election campaign on law and order ably led in a sanctimonious and hypocritical way by one who has now left for another place. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not wish to sound sanctimonious. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What a lot of sanctimonious claptrap. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He was intellectual but practical, spiritual but not sanctimonious or utopian, proud but never arrogant. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. She confronts him as another exploitative male who makes a sanctimonious speech at the book launch. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. By his sanctimonious talk and appearance, he produced the impression upon the minds of the parents that he was imbued with unusual holiness. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He is presented as a sanctimonious exploiter of her memory, who ill-treated her during their association. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. If tennis is a game for ladies and gentlemen, it's also time we acted a little more like gentle-people and less like sanctimonious hypocrites... From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He lifted religion from the stagnant arena of pious irrelevancies and sanctimonious trivialities. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In his adult life he despised what he saw as the meaningless and hypocritical practices of prayer and was put off by the ostentatiously sanctimonious elders. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He played many parts: storekeepers, hotel desk clerks, morticians, professors, bank tellers, ministers, confidence men, and a host of other characterizations, usually timid, whining, weak-willed, shifty, sanctimonious or sycophantic. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In contrast, in 2004 he derided those he considers to be sanctimonious in their opposition to violence, when the earth is suffering from severe human overpopulation. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Although religious, he is not sanctimonious. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Shocked by his beloved's turn-about, enraged by the betrayal, disgusted with the materialistic and sanctimonious unprincipled attitudes of both father and daughter, he stormed off to return home. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Pushes many of our sanctimonious envelopes. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In such situations a comic character's sanctimonious pose seems clumsy and inappropriate, the expressions of rage and revenge hollow. The criticisms, however, are sanctimonious and based on ignorance. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The joint resolution, however, is too sanctimonious and effectively wants to restore the previous situation. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English We want to be a little less sanctimonious about this. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We also ought to avoid being too sanctimonious. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not blame the miners for not wanting a lecture from him, or not wishing to have a sanctimonious letter from him. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many of us drive motor cars, so we cannot afford to be sanctimonious about this. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A lot of sanctimonious nonsense has been talked during this debate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is a slightly sanctimonious element about that. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think that we also understand the electoral considerations and would not wish to be sanctimonious on that point. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not regard the word "training" as a sanctimonious word. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I started my argument with perhaps slightly sanctimonious remarks about unselfishness. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He pretends to be very sanctimonious and virtuous on such matters and claims to be a good constitutional lawyer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We sometimes object to what seems to us a rather sanctimonious display of his faith. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We should not be too sanctimonious about that. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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