(n.) One who is admitted by favor to all or a part of the rights of citizenship, where he did not possess them by birth; an adopted or naturalized citizen.
(n.) One admitted to residence in a foreign country.
(v. t.) To constitute (one) a denizen; to admit to residence, with certain rights and privileges.
(v. t.) To provide with denizens; to populate with adopted or naturalized occupants.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unless psychic rehabilitation is undertaken in tandem with physical rehabilitation, a spinal cord-injured patient is likely to become an unhappy social recluse or denizen of a chronic care facility, rather than an independent productive member of his community.
(2) People have lived along the Rogue river for at least 8,500 years but its most famous denizen is probably the author Zane Grey , who wrote more than 90 books about the western frontier.
(3) Is "The Chalice" actually the Copenhagen Police Headquarters, affectionately referred to by its denizens as "The Chalice" (could this be "The Chalice"?)
(4) The world's universities overflow with economic research proving beyond doubt that contemporary capitalist economies do not function as if their denizens were prehistoric humans trading nuts and berries at the edge of the forest – the great delusion of free market economics.
(5) Come New Year's Day, denizens of the Johannesburg hotel could scarcely have dreamed of the horror unfolding upstairs in one of its luxurious rooms.
(6) More and more, the new buildings of the super-rich turn their denizens inward, justifying their extortionate prices by offering amenities such as gyms, screening rooms, wine bars and even libraries – and thereby further reducing the street life that any great city depends upon.
(7) Cameron has brought him in to review social mobility, and he owes no fealty to Ed Miliband and Ed Balls, denizens of the enemy camp of yesteryear.
(8) Whether they are Isis members or not, web denizens are prone to giving away a lot on social networks, but businesses are often guilty of failing to clean up after themselves too.
(9) She was wolf-reared in Judd Apatow's tumescent-adolescent boy-zone (none of whose denizens is ever cast for his hair colour), but she can take any of those boys to the woodshed for a rhetorical spanking, rich in obscenity and scatology, in that razor-sharp whine.
(10) Both Kung Fu Pandas borrow heavily from Chinese culture, depicting a brotherhood of anthropomorphic characters – the Furious Five – who use martial arts to protect the denizens of the Valley of Peace.
(11) We should expect that he and other denizens of talk radio will try to maintain their relevance in the Trump era by continuing to campaign against the last president.
(12) What is so special about this tiny, black-and-white denizen of Asian freshwater streams.
(13) You can't turn off the internet, nor make its denizens respectable (ask Louise Mensch).
(14) The Observer's Mark Kermode is among those who have admitted to a sense of distress that Team Edward, Team Jacob and the army of baseball-playing, Gap model denizens of the undead which seem to accompany them will soon no longer be with us.
(15) Most denizens in these realms would be hard-pressed to identify any instances in which they embraced causes or people deeply unpopular within those circles.
(16) True, it's not much – and some Slashdot denizens would pride themselves on being able to prevent ads being shown by entirely programmatic, rather than financial means.
(17) The sets play up to almost every female stereotype, with lots of pink, handbags aplenty and oodles of lipstick for its denizens.
(18) Yet another denizen of the internet calculated that based on Meek and Jeter’s recent performances, “Derek Jeter had a 0.9% chance of doing that naturally last night”.
(19) 764 people were surveyed, including 473 aborigines of the north, 207 denizens, and 84 migrants.
(20) Momentum , the grassroots movement of Corbyn supporters, will like it no more than the denizens of Rupert Murdoch’s parties, but there come moments in political lives when great politicians have to stand up and be counted.
(a.) Making a show of sanctity; affecting saintliness; hypocritically devout or pious.
Example Sentences:
(1) She provides a strong contrast to her sanctimonious, humourless sister Mary, who spouts empty platitudes about acceptable female conduct.
(2) It's not just on Fox News, but now also on MSNBC, where speaking critically of a military official, even in the mildest of tones, is treated like it's some sort of grave crime against the state: one that results in sanctimonious outbursts, manipulative appeals to patriotism, and the casting of the offender out of decent company.
(3) But Cruz’s aura of smug sanctimony, like his lack of humility, is striking even in an age of Trumpery.
(4) Here's a chocolate tart to really enjoy – not sanctimoniously dark or unpalatably bitter – just smooth, malty and rich.
(5) Suzuki admitted to journalists he called Trudeau a twerp, and the Liberal leader dismissed his critique of the party’s climate policy as “sanctimonious crap”.
(6) However, he also said it was important “not to feel too sanctimonious”, adding that he believed intelligence officials responsible for torturing detainees were working during a period of extraordinary stress and fear.
(7) My sanctimonious two cents: We all do stupid things and saying sorry when you’re in the wrong is always a good thing, but the monotonous regularity with which Pardew gets himself in scrapes with rival managers, officials and - now - opposition players tends to render his post match apologies rather hollow.
(8) Hockey said he wasn't interested in "sanctimonious lectures" from a prime minister who had "called me a fat man in parliament" and who had on Tuesday branded him and his colleagues "effectively, misogynist pigs".
(9) As this report is a sanctimony-free zone, we'll not be going into the rights and wrongs of last night's game here, but whichever side of the argument you stand, you have got to admit: that is one hell of a quote .
(10) Certainly, there are those of us who have begun to regard Tumour Neck Man as an old friend, a fellow sinner in a world full of sanctimonious bores.
(11) I had no responsibility for, or interest in, the sanctimony of other news organisations.
(12) Despite the government's sanctimonious assurances, there was never a serious police inquiry into the perpetrators of these attacks, and the attackers were never apprehended.
(13) One says that this is a mere smokescreen of sanctimony meant to hide a retreat from a market Google was unable to conquer for business reasons … The other is that this is a true act of moral bravery," said Kaiser Kuo, a Beijing-based expert on the internet.
(14) It will be the British at their worst: sanctimonious, self-congratulatory, worshipping at the tomb of the unknown, awful German.
(15) For those who believe the Liberal Democrats can sometimes veer between the sanctimonious and the eccentric, all this will seem further confirmation of the party's fundamental unfitness to govern.
(16) It will just turn you in to a self-deluding, sanctimonious bore.
(17) There are reasons for not clambering on to the soap boxes of sanctimony too swiftly.
(18) Look, at the risk of sounding sanctimonious, I think the BBC is there to do good.
(19) I could be a critical friend of the coalition.” While his party was in government, Farron voted against the tuition fee rise and the bedroom tax, provoking a senior party member to confide to a reporter, “Which bit of the sanctimonious, God-bothering, treacherous little shit is there not to like?” Just weeks before this year’s election, he scandalised colleagues by scoring his party’s handling of coalition politics a headline-catching two out of 10.
(20) Johnson said the BBC’s more niche public service programmes “go on to BBC4 where quite often you can’t measure the audience but they fulfil their remit and they can argue when they go on their sanctimonious missions about justifying £4bn [in licence fee income], ‘Well of course, we do all these obscure programmes that no one watched.’ “They put them on a slot where no one was ever going to watch them.” On the licence fee, Johnson told the committee: “I challenge you to find a more regressive system in terms of who gets the best value from it.