Words and phrases that have a meaning related to sanctimonious: (122 results)
Often used in the same context:
pompous, moralistic, smug, pious, hypocritical, glib, sycophantic, blither, politically correct, humorless, sententious, censorious, fatuous, obsequious, cynical, mendacious, smarmy, priggish, holier, vacuous, pusillanimous, platitudinous, mealymouthed, righteous, spineless, pharisaical, unctuous, jingoistic, judgmental, dunderheaded, condescending, schoolmarmish, egoistical, jesuitical, shameless, supercilious, meanspirited, effete, credulous, prissy, cretinous, amoral, venal, thickheaded, saintly, arrogant, patronising, unprincipled, pinheaded, disingenuous, feckless, substanceless, gullible, contemptible, solipsistic, weaselly, religionist, whiny, pedantic, vapid, brusk, vainglorious, disobliging, loathsome, sneery, preachy, shrill, unthinking, pettifogging, egotistical, loony, tendentious, political correctness, softheaded, captious, addlepated, rebarbative, onanistic, demagogic, simpleminded, hysterical, bilious, snide, huffy, hypocritic, contemptuous, drivelling, moronic, groveling, virtuous, warmongering, pretentious, fuddy, gutless, crass, unregenerate, unenlightened, uncompassionate, lunkheaded, speciesist, hubristic, bloviator, cocky, conceited, expressionless, stupid, insolent, demure, impassive, truculent, defiant, emotionless, resentful, reticent
Appears in the definition of:
pharisee, sanctimoniously, self-righteously
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Also try:holier-than-thou, pharisaic, pietistic, pietistical, self-righteous
— Nouns for sanctimonious: hypocrite, air, reverence, tone, hypocrisy, attitude, hypocrites, face, expression, humbug, trivialities, more...
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