Usually means: Self-righteous, showing false piety.
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  1. sanctimonious: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sanctimonious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sanctimonious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sanctimonious: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sanctimonious: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sanctimonious, sanctimonious: Wordnik
  7. sanctimonious: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sanctimonious: Wiktionary
  9. sanctimonious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sanctimonious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sanctimonious: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sanctimonious: Dictionary.com
  13. sanctimonious: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. sanctimonious: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Sanctimonious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. sanctimonious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. sanctimonious: Rhymezone
  18. Sanctimonious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. sanctimonious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. sanctimonious: Free Dictionary
  21. sanctimonious: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. sanctimonious: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Sanctimonious: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Making a show of being morally better than others, especially hypocritically pious.
▸ adjective:  (archaic) Holy, devout.

Similar:
self-righteous, holier-than-thou, pharisaical, pietistical, pharisaic, pious, pietistic, sanctiloquent, high-sounding, overpious, more...

Opposite:
hypocritical, self-righteous

Types:
holier-than-thou, holier-than-me, more...

Phrases:
sanctimonious talk, sanctimonious norm enforcers, sanctimonious sort, opposite of sanctimonious, more...

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Similar:
self-righteous, holier-than-thou, pharisaical, pietistical, pharisaic, pious, pietistic, sanctiloquent, high-sounding, overpious, more...

Opposite:
hypocritical, self-righteous

Types:
holier-than-thou, holier-than-me, more...

Phrases:
sanctimonious talk, sanctimonious norm enforcers, sanctimonious sort, opposite of sanctimonious, more...

Colors:
    ivory,     beige,     off-white,     taupe,     muted gold, more...



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