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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

Dictionary Results for sanctimonious:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

sanctimonious
    adj 1: excessively or hypocritically pious; "a sickening
           sanctimonious smile" [syn: holier-than-thou,
           pietistic, pietistical, pharisaic, pharisaical,
           sanctimonious, self-righteous]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Sanctimonious \Sanc`ti*mo"ni*ous\, a. [See Sanctimony.]
   1. Possessing sanctimony; holy; sacred; saintly. --Shak.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Making a show of sanctity; affecting saintliness;
      hypocritically devout or pious. "Like the sanctimonious
      pirate." --Shak.
      [1913 Webster] -- Sanc`ti*mo"ni*ous*ly, adv. --
      Sanc`ti*mo"ni*ous*ness, n.
      [1913 Webster]

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