My answer is the former. In my opinion people who speak rudely are better than these sanctimonious guys.
He was donned in his Sunday garments, with his most sanctimonious and sourest face, and, holding his hat in one hand and his stick in the other, he proceeded to clean his shoes on the mat.
It's that sanctimonious air that people can't stand.
"Keep Portland sanctimonious," mumble a few contrarians, while others savour the irony that Portland had to steal the slogan from Austin, Texas.
He writes smug, sanctimonious rubbish.
FOR Sri Lanka's government and many of its citizens, reactions in the West to the final phase of its 26-year war with the Tamil Tigers have reeked of sanctimonious hypocrisy.
The British press at its worst is intrusive, sanctimonious and spiteful.
A sanctimonious smile, remark, person, letter of protest.
What is more, Norway and Iceland point out, they have managed their fish stocks much better than the sanctimonious whale-lovers of the European Union.
You sanctimonious little hypocrite!
a sickening sanctimonious smile.
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