Sanctimonious

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Feigning piety or righteousness: "a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg that looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity” ( Mark Twain).
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  • adj. Making a show of being morally better than others, especially hypocritically pious.
  • adj. Holy, devout.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Possessing sanctimony; holy; sacred; saintly.
  • adj. Making a show of sanctity; affecting saintliness; hypocritically devout or pious.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Possessing sanctity; sacred; holy; saintly; religious.
  • Making a show of sanctity; affecting the appearance of sanctity.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. excessively or hypocritically pious
    • Equivalent
    pious   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    holy    sacred    saintly    hypocritical   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Antonius    acrimonious    erroneous    felonious    harmonious    parsimonious    unceremonious   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    self-righteous    puritanical    condescend    self-important    hypocritical    smug    pompous    self-serving    bigoted    canting   
     
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