So, you sound rather sanctimonious from the point of ignorance in your statement.

I don't want to sound sanctimonious but as a doctor my job is to save lives, not take them away.

Only Ruanek, T'Selis thought, could say that without sounding sanctimonious or false.

This can be answered only at the risk of sounding sanctimonious: Not everything can be measured by money.

For some reason it had not sounded sanctimonious, as it might have done.

A substantial news follow-up would risk sounding relentlessly sanctimonious.

Andross did a good job of sounding sanctimonious.

He has plenty to boast about, and he does, but what saves him from sounding sanctimonious or overbearing is an all-conquering affability.

That may sound sanctimonious, but it is also practical.

In fact, the idealism of the shareholders sounded sanctimonious at first.