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sanctimonious

adjectiveGraduateELO 1,400SATGRECAT
DEFINITION

excessively or hypocritically pious

WEBSTER'S 1913

Possessing sanctimony; holy; sacred; saintly.

ETYMOLOGY

Latin sanctus (holy) + -monious (characteristic of)

SYNONYMS
ANTONYMS
IN LITERATURE

At this thought she tried to release her hand, but he would not let it go; for the deaconess had come close to Agatha, and, in a tone of sanctimonious wrath, desired her to quit this scene.

Georg Ebers, The Historical Romances of Georg Ebers
IN USE

This is a little too sanctimonious a fraud to meet my old-fashioned ideas."Alpheus T.

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