sanctimoniousness
11sanctimoniousness — See: sanctimonious …
12sanctimoniousness — noun the quality of being hypocritically devout • Syn: ↑sanctimony • Derivationally related forms: ↑sanctimonious (for: ↑sanctimony), ↑sanctimonious • Hypernyms: ↑ …
13over righteousness — sanctimoniousness, hypocrisy …
14shammed righteousness — sanctimoniousness, self righteousness, hypocrisy …
15hypocrisy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. deceit, dissembling, pretense, falsity, insincerity; sanctimony, cant, Phariseeism. See falsehood, impiety. Ant., honesty, sincerity. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. quackery, casuistry, pharisaism,… …
16sanctimony — I (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. self righteousness, hypocrisy, sanctimoniousness, pietism, *goody goody ness, pretense, affectation, *lip service. II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun A show or expression of feelings or beliefs one does not actually… …
17sanctimonious — sanc|ti|mo|ni|ous [ˌsæŋktıˈməuniəs US ˈmou ] adj formal [Date: 1600 1700; Origin: sanctimony sanctimoniousness (16 21 centuries), from Latin sanctimonia holiness , from sanctus; SAINT] behaving as if you are morally better than other people, in a …
18sanctimonious — [[t]sæ̱ŋktɪmo͟ʊniəs[/t]] ADJ GRADED (disapproval) If you say that someone is sanctimonious, you disapprove of them because you think that they are trying to appear morally better than other people. He writes smug, sanctimonious rubbish... You… …
19sanctimony — noun the quality of being hypocritically devout • Syn: ↑sanctimoniousness • Derivationally related forms: ↑sanctimonious, ↑sanctimonious (for: ↑sanctimoniousness) • Hypernyms: ↑ …
20sanctimonious — adjective Date: 1603 1. hypocritically pious or devout < a sanctimonious moralist > < the king s sanctimonious rebuke G. B. Shaw > 2. obsolete possessing sanctity ; holy • sanctimoniously adverb • sanctimoniousness …
