sanctimonious

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Making a show of being morally better than others, especially hypocritically pious
Holy, devout
making an ostentatious display or hypocritical pretense of holiness or piety
{a} appearing holy, faintly, devout
{s} self-righteous, pretending to be pious
Making a show of sanctity; affecting saintliness; hypocritically devout or pious
hypocritically pious
Making a show of being morally better than others
Possessing sanctimony; holy; sacred; saintly
excessively or hypocritically pious; "a sickening sanctimonious smile"
disapproval If you say that someone is sanctimonious, you disapprove of them because you think that they are trying to appear morally better than other people. He writes smug, sanctimonious rubbish = self-righteous. behaving as if you are morally better than other people, in a way that is annoying - used to show disapproval (sanctimony (16-21 centuries), from sanctimonia , from sanctus; SAINT)
sanctimonial
sanctimoniously
{a} with grave austerity
sanctimoniously
self-righteously, in the manner of pretending to be pious
sanctimoniously
in a sanctimonious manner; "she was sanctimoniously criticizing everybody"
sanctimoniously
In a sanctimonious manner
sanctimoniously
in a sanctimonious manner; "she was sanctimoniously criticizing everybody
sanctimoniousness
{i} self-righteousness, hypocritical devoutness, quality of pretending to be pious
sanctimoniousness
the quality of being hypocritically devout
sanctimoniousness
The property of being sanctimonious
sanctimonious
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