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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

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


The 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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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