how to pronounce sanctimonious
/ˌsæŋktəˈmoʊniːəs/
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An example use of sanctimonious in a speech by a native speaker of american english:
“… and are often very sanctimonious and …”
meanings of sanctimonious
adjective:
- Making a show of being morally better than others, especially hypocritically pious.
- Holy, devout.
sanctimonious frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR
the word sanctimonious occurs in english on average 0.3 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
topics sanctimonious can be related to
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that sanctimonious can be often used in the following areas:
1) people, society, and culture;
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