The word "sanctimoniousness" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe a person or attitude that is overly and hypocritically moralistic. For example: "Ray's sanctimoniousness was unbearable; he was always passing judgment on other people's behavior."
This new sanctimoniousness, said officials, was a precaution to ward off a hue-and-cry from Jordan's Islamists, already restive over King Abdullah's hands-off approach to the looming war on Iraq.
Usually she has the decency to lay low, occasionally confiding obnoxious sanctimoniousness at dinner parties.
As tabloid values get a hammering, a ghastly, keening note of smug middle-class sanctimoniousness has been added.
A constant refrain throughout this long literature of complaint, and what European intellectuals even now find most repugnant, is American sanctimoniousness, the habit of dressing the business of power in the garb of piety.
It was an exhibition of precisely the sort of farcical sanctimoniousness that Moore later decried as a sign that the left was becoming insular to the point of self-parody.
The first is the ideology of love itself, even the idolatry of the concept and the feeling of love, which Linklater films with the goggle-eyed sanctimoniousness of a recent convert.
This sanctimoniousness clouds virtually all her work, despite its readability.
"First idea, best idea," the disregard for form and finish, the sanctimoniousness: aren't these all things we could do without?
I initially thought that the broad and flashy dark humor of "Wild Tales" would win; I'm not fully confident that it won't, but it's hard to bet against the historico-politico-religious sanctimoniousness of "Ida".
By 1924, Virginia Woolf was complaining about the stuffy, intellectualized sanctimoniousness of those books.
Why do some people project onto him the best of this country (humility, tenacity, plain old decency) — and the worst (sanctimoniousness, overexposure, political intolerance)?
