Modifies a noun

• prig: But that, on the other hand, doesn't stop her calling the local coroner " a stupid, sanctimonious prig!

• hypocrite: Joan calls Dennis and Meg a bunch of sanctimonious hypocrites for trying to get rid of her.

• attitude: Accompanying this vicious attack on our party was a sanctimonious attitude that claimed that New Labor was morally superior to the Conservative Party.

• posturing: In four single columns he succeeds in puncturing every single piece of sanctimonious posturing vented by Emperor Tony in his sad little speech.

• nitwit: Yet at the very moment when they should be decoupled, sanctimonious nitwits are calling for a return to morals based on superstition.

• cretin: Kate shrieks at him and calls him a " sanctimonious cretin " .

Modifying Another Word

• rather: Somehow holiness has a rather sanctimonious feel to it.

• so: I'd be more sympathetic with you if you weren't so sanctimonious about it.

• too: Mind you, the Brits canât sound too sanctimonious, what with any number of olde worlde English nostalgia in recent years.