【每日一词】sanctimonious -/ˌsaŋ(k)-tə-ˈmō-nē-əs -nyəs/ adj. 假装虔诚的；假装圣洁的；假装诚实的

　　1: hypocritically pious or devout

　　a sanctimonious moralist

　　the king's sanctimonious rebuke —G. B. Shaw

　　2obsolete : possessing sanctity : holy

短语

　　be sanctimonious: 一本正经

　　sanctimonious sermonising: 伪善的训斥

　　sanctimonious devoted unctuous earnest: 都是假对真

　　sanctimonious words: 假装圣洁的言词

　　a sanctimonious priest: 一个道貌岸然的牧师

　　Seeing Them As Sanctimonious: 认为他们在伪善

　　a self-righteous or sanctimonious person: 一本正经或假装神圣的人

Examples of sanctimonious in a Sentence

　　Recent Examples on the Web

　　Most of this managed to come off both lazy and sanctimonious.

　　—David Polansky, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 12 July 2024

　　Nope — those three sanctimonious defenders of our democracy are all down with the deep-state’s diminution of our democracy.

　　—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 24 June 2024

　　There’s never anything sanctimonious or preachy about it.

　　—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 21 June 2024

　　Of all the pillars of internet content, surely one of the strongest is the genre where people outline their morning routine in grave and sanctimonious detail.

　　—Constance Grady, Vox, 6 June 2024

　　双语例句

　　He writes smug, sanctimonious rubbish.

　　他写的是自鸣得意、道貌岸然的垃圾。

　　The British press at its worst is intrusive, sanctimonious and spiteful.

　　英国媒体的恶劣在于其入侵性、伪善和刻毒。

　　Though most of the critical letters were sanctimonious in tone (and presumptuous about all the mistakes I'd made), not all of them were.

　　大部分持批评态度的人都会(对我所犯下的所有过错)假装虔诚，但我知道他们并非真的如此。