Sanctimonious

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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