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Muhammadumaraman Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary

What does sanctimonious mean in the examples below?

Despite the government's sanctimonious assurances, there was never a serious police inquiry into the perpetrators of these attacks, and the attackers were never apprehended.

Fairytales were always a bit swindle, bribing us with happy endings to accept their sanctimonious morality.
  

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Sanctimonious means to make a show of being moral, to act as though you think you are better than others. In your first example, it would suggest that the government claimed that they wanted to catch the perpetrators and were trying hard to do so. In your second example, it would suggest that the writers of fairy tales believed that they knew what is morally right, and were trying to get you to share their views.

— Blue Jay

  • Sanctimonious means to make a show of being moral, to act as though you think you are better than others.
  • In your first example, it would suggest that the government claimed that they wanted to catch the perpetrators and were trying hard to do so.
  • In your second example, it would suggest that the writers of fairy tales believed that they knew what is morally right, and were trying to get you to share their views.
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Sanctimonious means to make a show of being moral, to act as though you think you are better than others.
In your first example, it would suggest that the government claimed that they wanted to catch the perpetrators and were trying hard to do so.
In your second example, it would suggest that the writers of fairy tales believed that they knew what is morally right, and were trying to get
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muhammadumaramana bit swindle,
a bit of a swindle
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