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Sanctimoniousness is the noun for that quality: the state of behaving as if you are morally better than other people, in a way that them. Writers use it when they want a heavy, formal name for the attitude. Though actually, many careful speakers prefer the shorter noun sanctimony, which means the same thing and is easier in the mouth. You will meet sanctimoniousness in essays and reviews more than in speech. It names the quality, not a person (that is a sanctimonious person) and not a way of doing something (that is sanctimoniously).
道貌岸然（那種態度；較短的英文名詞是 sanctimony）
組成From sanctimonious + -ness (the quality of being that way).
同家族的字
- sanctimoniousthe adjective this noun is built from
- sanctimonythe shorter, more usual noun for the same quality
- sanctimoniouslythe adverb: in this annoying holy-better way
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
sanctimoniousnessnoun
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The property of being sanctimonious.
- This kind of smiling, bossy sanctimoniousness was a little too pervasive for Toby, especially among the female members of the sect.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。