Sanctimonious

Adjective

 * 1) Making a show of being morally better than others, especially hypocritically pious.
 * 2)  Holy, devout.

Derived terms

 * sanctimoniously
 * sanctimoniousness
 * sanctimony

Adverbs for Sanctimonious
absurdly; ridiculously; affectedly; ostentatiously; laughably; insincerely; disagreeably; pretentiously; smoothly; blandly; suavely; unctuously; prudishly; pharasaically; hollowly; intolerably.

Thesaurus
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

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, pyhimysmäinen, hurskasteleva,  jeesusteleva
 * French:, faux dévot, , ,  confit en dévotion
 * German: frömmelnd,


 * Italian:
 * Norwegian Bokmål:
 * Norwegian Nynorsk: skinheilag
 * Russian: ханжеский
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish: mojigato,