Found 3 hits - Term: sanctimonious, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
sanctimonious \sanc`timo"nious\, a. see sanctimony.
1. possessing sanctimony; holy; sacred; saintly. --shak.
1913 webster
2. making a show of sanctity; affecting saintliness;
hypocritically devout or pious. "like the sanctimonious
pirate." --shak.
1913 webster -- sanc`timo"niously, adv. --
sanc`timo"niousness, n.
1913 webster
see also:
sanctimony sanc`timo"niously sanc`timo"niousness
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
sanctimonious
adj : excessively or hypocritically pious; "a sickening
sanctimonious smile" syn: holier-than-thou, pietistic,
pietistical, pharisaic, pharisaical, self-righteous
see also:
holier-than-thou pietistic pietistical pharisaic pharisaical self-righteous
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
53 moby thesaurus words for "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
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