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I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.
Ralph Thomas Walker

Meaning of "sanctimonious" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SANCTIMONIOUS

From Latin sanctimonia sanctity, from sanctus holy.
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PRONUNCIATION OF SANCTIMONIOUS

sanctimonious  [ˌsæŋktɪˈməʊnɪəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SANCTIMONIOUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Sanctimonious is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES SANCTIMONIOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Self-righteousness

Self-righteousness is a feeling or display of moral superiority derived from a sense that one's beliefs, actions, or affiliations are of greater virtue than those of the average person. Self-righteous individuals are often intolerant of the opinions and behaviors of others. The term "self-righteous" is often considered derogatory particularly because self-righteous individuals are often thought to exhibit hypocrisy due to the belief that humans are imperfect and can therefore never be infallible, an idea similar to that of the Freudian defense mechanism of reaction formation. The connection between self-righteousness and hypocrisy predates Freud's views, however, as evidenced by the 1899 book Good Mrs. Hypocrite: A Study in Self-Righteousness, by the pseudonymous author "Rita."...

Definition of sanctimonious in the English dictionary

The definition of sanctimonious in the dictionary is affecting piety or making a display of holiness.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SANCTIMONIOUS


acrimonious
ˌækrɪˈməʊnɪəs
antimonious
ˌæntɪˈməʊnɪəs
Antonius
ænˈtəʊnɪəs
Ausonius
ɔːˈsəʊnɪəs
ceremonious
ˌsɛrɪˈməʊnɪəs
disharmonious
ˌdɪshɑːˈməʊnɪəs
erroneous
ɪˈrəʊnɪəs
euphonious
juːˈfəʊnɪəs
felonious
fɪˈləʊnɪəs
harmonious
hɑːˈməʊnɪəs
inharmonious
ˌɪnhɑːˈməʊnɪəs
parsimonious
ˌpɑːsɪˈməʊnɪəs
peroneus
pəˈrəʊnɪəs
Petronius
pɪˈtrəʊnɪəs
querimonious
ˌkwɛrɪˈməʊnɪəs
simonious
sɪˈməʊnɪəs
Suetonius
swiːˈtəʊnɪəs
symphonious
sɪmˈfəʊnɪəs
unceremonious
ˌʌnsɛrɪˈməʊnɪəs
unharmonious
ˌʌnhɑːˈməʊnɪəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SANCTIMONIOUS

sanctifiable
sanctification
sanctified
sanctifiedly
sanctifier
sanctifies
sanctify
sanctifyingly
sanctimoniously
sanctimoniousness
sanctimony
sanction
sanction mark
sanctionable
sanctioneer
sanctioner
sanctionless
sanctions-busting
sanctities
sanctitude

WORDS THAT END LIKE SANCTIMONIOUS

arsenious
cacophonious
calumnious
curious
delicious
hilarious
ignominious
impecunious
ingenious
insomnious
overingenious
pecunious
postliminious
previous
religious
ruthenious
sanious
selenious
serious
various

Synonyms and antonyms of sanctimonious in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «SANCTIMONIOUS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «sanctimonious» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of sanctimonious

Translation of «sanctimonious» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SANCTIMONIOUS

Find out the translation of sanctimonious to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of sanctimonious from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sanctimonious» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

道貌岸然
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

santurrón
570 millions of speakers

English

sanctimonious
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पाखंडी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مدعي التهذيب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

святош
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sanctimonious
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ধর্মধ্বজী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

moralisateur
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Suci
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

frömmlerisch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

聖人ぶった
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

독실한
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sanctimonious
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ngụy tin
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

புனித தன்மை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रामाणिक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sahte sofu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

bigotto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

świętoszkowata
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

святош
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

elogioase
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

υποκριτική
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

skynheilige
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

skenheliga
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

skinnhellig
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of sanctimonious

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SANCTIMONIOUS»

The term «sanctimonious» is normally little used and occupies the 110.802 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SANCTIMONIOUS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about sanctimonious

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7 QUOTES WITH «SANCTIMONIOUS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word sanctimonious.
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Mark Davis
Can you, in a million years, imagine another female senator - Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Claire McCaskill - reacting to being called 'ma'am' like Barbara Boxer did? This is the kind of sanctimonious self-absorption on the modern left that makes my teeth itch.
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Bernard Goldberg
I have a big problem when the sanctimonious, holier than thou congressmen and women go on national television for six hours and beat somebody up with a stick, and not because I'm 'Ms. Manners.' That's not what bothers me. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
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Julie Klausner
There are good intentions behind many people's conversion to veganism, including an admirable devotion to the well-being of animals and a justified skepticism about the crap the USDA allows manufacturers to put in our food. But it's hard to ignore the often sanctimonious nature of what some nutritionists view as an 'extremist' way of eating.
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Denise Mina
Even if people do wrong, we're social animals, so what can we do about stopping them doing the same things in future? Saying people are 'bad' or 'evil' is just an unwillingness to engage; an unwillingness to try to empathise. That sanctimonious attitude doesn't help anyone.
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Pat Robertson
I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people.
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Diane Sawyer
I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn't.
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Ralph Thomas Walker
I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SANCTIMONIOUS»

Discover the use of sanctimonious in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sanctimonious and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms
... »attachment: dedication, consecration (see corresponding verbs at DEVOTE) devour »eat, swallow, ingest, consume Ana »waste, squander, dissipate: » destroy, demolish: wreck, »ruin devout, pious, religious, pietistic, sanctimonious apply ...
Merriam-Webster, Inc, 1984
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The Dramatic Works of Catherine the Great: Theatre and ...
Catherine thus steers her audience's sympathy away from Sanctimonious, and emphasizes the ridiculous aspects of the three ladies' quasi- religious beliefs, without ever calling Christianity itself into question. In Gellert, the result of this falling ...
Lurana Donnels O'Malley, 2006
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Two Comedies by Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia: Oh, ...
(Bowing, she exits) SANCTIMONIOUS. (After her) Good-bye, God be with you, don't forget to tell us everything you hear. SCENE 4 TATTLER, SANCTIMONIOUS , KHRISTINA TATTLER. We barely got rid of that fool. SANCTIMONIOUS. Sister ...
Catherine II (Empress of Russia), Lurana Donnels O'Malley, 1998
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Classical Logic and Its Rabbit-Holes: A First Course
All clowns are sanctimonious if and only if they are tyrants. Some tyrants are pompous if they are doomed. Any clown who isjolly unless he is doomed is either sanctimonious or pompous. Some pompous tyrants are clowns only if they aren't  ...
Nelson P. Lande, 2013
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Dragon of Naif
In doing so he crashed into Sanctimonious' back; nearly unseating the cleric. “ Ooopppss!” said Flame when he finally came to a stop sitting on the ground. Scorch gave a giggle. “Yes,” harrumphed Sanctimonious looking down at Flame.
Joseph Ryncarz, 2012
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The 2012 Canterbury Preacher's Companion: 150 Complete ...
Revelation 4.8 Sanctimonious Mark Twain described a repellent character whose religion had made him thoroughly unattractive. He was, according to the American humorist, 'a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg that looked like he ...
Michael Counsell, 2011
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VoLT - Vocabulary Learning Techniques Vol-I
SANCTIMONIOUS SAGACIOUS [suh-gey-shuhs]: very wise, judicious Memory key: The word sagacious has been derived from the word 'sage'. 'Sage' can also be called a 'guru'. He is supposed to be very wise. So, sagacious means very ...
Abhishek Jain
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Word Source: The Smarter Way to Learn Vocabulary
Sanctimonious—In a nonreligious sense, to be sanctimonious is to be critical in a hypocritical way. All people at one time or another criticize others for doing things that they themselves have done (or wished they could do). Everybody has had ...
Randy Howe, 2006
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Change You Can Really Believe In: The Obama Legacy of Broken ...
And we will be able to feel good about ourselves and sanctimonious about how pure our intentions are and how tough we are.601 Sanctimonious though they were, the rabid, wild-eyed, foaming at the mouth critics on the left at least had a ...
Joseph Toomey, 2012
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Student Vocabulary Companion
1 . magnify, deify, raise, set apart 2. untouchable, venerable, inviolate, Sanctuary Sanctify divine Sanction santion sancoin Sanction sactify sakrahsangkt Sanctimonious Sanctity Sanctimonious Sacrosanct sacrosant sangktuhmohneuhs ...
Okyere Bonna, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SANCTIMONIOUS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term sanctimonious is used in the context of the following news items.
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CNBC Host: Liberal Starbucks CEO 'Preachy and Sanctimonious
Kernen said he would “normally defend” a CEO's decision to raise prices, but called out Schultz because he is “preachy and sanctimonious and self-righteous. «NewsBusters, Jul 15»
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A Wheatgrass Margarita for the Sanctimonious Lush
... of July—good luck with that—this cocktail will do the magic trick of making you feel both sanctimoniously healthful and a little buzzy—a winning combination. «Vanity Fair, Jun 15»
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John Ivison: Bono takes foreign aid message to fellow …
... bear the rock star's burden of having to single-handedly cure world poverty, he's obliged to travel the world talking to a bunch of sanctimonious self-promoters ... «National Post, Jun 15»
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Remember that time Helen Clark called John Campbell a …
Remember that time Helen Clark called John Campbell a 'sanctimonious little ... famous political quotes of the 2002 election campaign : "You sanctimonious ... «Stuff.co.nz, May 15»
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Jon Stewart vs Sean Hannity: We all know who the real …
Referencing the way that Stewart had mocked his weeklong coverage of spring break the year prior, Hannity went on to call Stewart a “sanctimonious jackass.”. «Salon, May 15»
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Hannity Calls Jon Stewart 'Sanctimonious Jackass' over Spring …
Sean Hannity is still pretty upset with Jon Stewart for making light of his spring break coverage last year. Stewart mocked Hannity for his week-long devotion to ... «Mediaite, May 15»
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Sanctimonious MPs Went On Final £70000 Expenses Spending …
A selection of MPs, including former Labour cabinet minister Peter Hain, went on an extraordinary expenses binge in the dying days of the last parliament. «Breitbart News, May 15»
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Election 2016: How to filter politically sanctimonious Facebook posts …
thumbs-down-facebook-social-media.jpg I love my Facebook friends. I do, I really do. Many of my Facebook friends are people who I've had real or virtual ... «ZDNet, Apr 15»
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Ten Reasons Why the Guardian's Divestment Campaign is Bullying …
Ten Reasons Why the Guardian's Divestment Campaign is Bullying, Sanctimonious and Dishonest. 0. muir-screenshot. Screenshot. by Danny Lee Weston13 ... «Breitbart News, Apr 15»
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Tim Farron's UKIP opponent resigns, citing claims of “open racism …
Tim Farron's UKIP opponent resigns, citing claims of “open racism” and “sanctimonious bullying” within the party. By The Voice | Sat 21st March 2015 - 3:14 pm ... «Liberal Democrat Voice, Mar 15»

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