sanctimonious

3 definitions found

sanctimonious - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Sanctimonious \Sanc`ti*mo"ni*ous\, 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`ti*mo"ni*ous*ly, adv. --
        Sanc`ti*mo"ni*ous*ness, n.
        [1913 Webster]

sanctimonious - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  sanctimonious
      adj 1: excessively or hypocritically pious; "a sickening
             sanctimonious smile" [syn: holier-than-thou,
             pietistic, pietistical, pharisaic, pharisaical,
             sanctimonious, self-righteous]

sanctimonious - 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