'Sanctimonious' definitions:
Definition of 'sanctimonious'
From: WordNet
adjective
Excessively or hypocritically pious; "a sickening sanctimonious smile" [syn: holier-than-thou, pietistic, pietistical, pharisaic, pharisaical, sanctimonious, self-righteous]
Definition of 'Sanctimonious'
From: 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]
Synonyms of 'sanctimonious'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- pecksniffian,
- pharisaic,
- pharisaical,
- pharisean,
- pietistic,
- pious,
- priggish,
- prim,
- prudish,
- puritanical,
- Quakerish,
- sanctified,
- self-righteous,
- simon-pure,
- smug,
- sniveling,
- snuffling,
- stiff-necked,
- straitlaced,
- stuffy,
- Tartuffian,
- Tartuffish,
- ultrareligious,
- unctuous,
- Victorian,
- zealotic,
- zealous