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sanctimonious

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Adjective
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sanc=ti=mo=ni=ous

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective sanctimonious has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

sanctimoniousa. [See Sanctimony.].
  •  Possessing sanctimony; holy; sacred; saintly.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Making a show of sanctity; affecting saintliness; hypocritically devout or pious.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

sanctimonious, adj. making a show of sanctity or piety.

Derivative
sanctimoniously adv. sanctimoniousness n. sanctimony n.
Etymology
L sanctimonia sanctity (as SAINT)

THESAURUS

sanctimonious

Pecksniffian, Quakerish, Tartuffian, Tartuffish, Victorian, affected, canting, censorious, deceiving, demure, false, fanatical, goody, goody-goody, hidebound, holier-than-thou, hypocritic, hypocritical, insincere, mealy-mouthed, mealymouthed, mid-Victorian, narrow, oily, old-maidish, overdevout, overmodest, overreligious, overrighteous, overzealous, pecksniffian, pharisaic, pharisaical, pharisean, pietistic, pious, priggish, prim, prudish, puritanical, sanctified, self-righteous, simon-pure, smug, sniveling, snuffling, stiff-necked, straitlaced, stuffy, ultrareligious, unctuous, zealotic, zealous

ROGET THESAURUS

sanctimonious

Impiety

N impiety, sin, irreverence, profaneness, profanity, profanation, blasphemy, desecration, sacrilege, scoffing, hypocrisy, pietism, cant, pious fraud, lip devotion, lip service, lip reverence, misdevotion, formalism, austerity, sanctimony, sanctimoniousness, pharisaism, precisianism, sabbatism, sabbatarianism, odium theologicum, sacerdotalism, bigotry blue laws, hardening, backsliding, declension, perversion, reprobation, sinner, scoffer, blasphemer, sacrilegist, sabbath breaker, worldling, hypocrite, Tartufe, Mawworm, bigot, saint, Pharisee, sabbatarian, formalist, methodist, puritan, pietist, precisian, religionist, devotee, ranter, fanatic, juramentado, the wicked, the evil, the unjust, the reprobate, sons of men, sons of Belial, the wicked one, children of darkness, impious, irreligious, desecrating, profane, irreverent, sacrilegious, blasphemous, un-hallowed, un-sanctified, un-regenerate, hardened, perverted, reprobate, hypocritical, canting, pietistical, sanctimonious, unctuous, pharisaical, overrighteous, righteous over much, bigoted, fanatical, priest-ridden, under the mask of religion, under the cloak of religion, under the pretense of religion, under the form of religion, under the guise of religion, giovane santo diavolo vecchio.

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