sanctimonious

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

Sanctimonious \Sanc`ti*mo"ni*ous\, a. [See {Sanctimony}.]
   1. Possessing sanctimony; holy; sacred; saintly. --Shak.
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   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.
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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