Sanctimonious

Definition: Sanctimonious

Sanctimonious

Adjective

1. Excessively or hypocritically pious; "a sickening sanctimonious smile".

Date "sanctimonious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Note: Sanctimonious \Sanc`ti*mo"ni*ous\, adjective. [See Sanctimony.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Sanctimonious

Synonyms: holier-than-thou (adj), pharisaic (adj), pharisaical (adj), pietistic (adj), pietistical (adj), self-righteous (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Impiety	Hypocritical; (false); canting, pietistical, sanctimonious, unctuous, pharisaical, overrighteous, righteous over much.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Sanctimonious

English words defined with "sanctimonious": holier-than-thou ♦ pharisaic, pharisaical, pharisee, pietistic, pietistical ♦ Sanctimonial, sanctimoniously, self-righteous, self-righteously. (references)

Etymologies containing "sanctimonious": Sanctimonial. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	You sanctimonious bastards! (Life of Brian; writing credit: Graham Chapman; John Cleese)
Movie/TV Titles	The Sanctimonious Spinsters' Society (1913)
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Domain	Title
Music	Sanctimonious Pt.1 (Enhanced) [CD-SINGLE] [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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"Sanctimonious" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sanctimonious" is used about 50 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	50	48,117

Expressions using "sanctimonious": be sanctimonious ♦ sanctimonious hypocrite. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "sanctimonious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		moralizues (preachy, sanctified), me pamje shenjtori. (various references)

Arabic		‏متظاهر بالورع, ‏مدعي التهذيب. (various references)

Bulgarian		свят (creation, earth, holy, ineffable, sacred, sainted, saintly, spiritual, universe, world), свещен (blessed, holy, sacred, sacrosanct, sainted, taboo), лицемерно набожен (pious, sanctified). (various references)

Czech		svatouškovský (goody goody), pokrytecký (holier-than-thou, hypocritical, two faced). (various references)

Farsi		مقدس نما, مقدس (Holy, Innocent, Numinous, Sacred, Sacrosanct, Saint). (various references)

Finnish		hurskastellateleva. (various references)

French		moralisateur. (various references)

German		scheinheilig (canting, hypocritical, innocent). (various references)

Greek		αγιοφανήσ, ψευτοθεοφοβούμενοσ, ψευδευλαβήσ (pietistic). (various references)

Hebrew		מתחס�" (hypocrite, mealy mouthed, pharisee, prude, smarmy). (various references)

Hungarian		szenteskedõ (goody goody), álszent (canter, hypocrite, hypocritical, pharisaic, pharisaical, pharisee, sanctified, sanctimonial, self-righteous). (various references)

Italian		ipocrita (chadband, dissembler, hypocrite, hypocritical, pious). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		仏臭い (otherwordly). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ほとけくさい (otherwordly). (various references)

Manx		far-chasherick, casherick (sacred). (various references)

Pig Latin		anctimonioussay.(various references)

Portuguese		santimonial, hipócrita (cant, canting, dissembler, double, double dealing, double-faced hammer, hypocrite, hypocritical, hypodermic, insincerity, pectin, prudish, self-righteous, two faced, two-tongued), carola, beato fingido. (various references)

Russian		ханжеский (canting, churchy, holier-than-thou, pious, sanctified, self-righteous). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		pobožan (devout, pi, pious, prayerful, religious, saintlike). (various references)

Spanish		mojigato (hypocrite, prig, priggish, prude, prudish). (various references)

Swedish		skenhelig (hypocritical, pi). (various references)

Thai		แสร้งทำเป็นศัก�"ิ์สิทธิ์. (various references)

Turkish		sahte sofu (pharisee, pious), dindarlık taslayan. (various references)

Ukranian		святенницький (cant, churchy, goody goody, hypocritical, prudish, sanctified), святий (divine, hallow, holy, sacred, sainted, saintly), побожний (devotional, devout, pious, religious, spiritual). (various references)

Vietnamese		phô trương sự mộ đạo. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	sanctimonia. (various references)
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Derivations
	Words beginning with "sanctimonious": sanctimoniously, sanctimoniousness, sanctimoniousnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Sanctimonious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sanctamonious, sanctiminious, sanctimoneous, sanctimonius, sanctimonous, sanctimonuous, sanctomonious, santimonious, senctimonious. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "sanctimonious" (pronounced sa'ngktumō"nēus)
7	-u m ō" n ē u s	acrimonious, unceremonious.
6	-m ō" n ē u s	harmonious.
5	-ō" n ē u s	erroneous, felonious.
4	-n ē u s	contemporaneous, extraneous, homogeneous, igneous, ignominious, instantaneous, miscellaneous, percutaneous, simultaneous, spontaneous.
3	-ē u s	alias, amphibious, aqueous, bilious, coleus, commodious, copious, courteous, curious, deleterious, delirious, denarius, devious, dubious, envious, fastidious, furious, gaseous, glorious, gregarious, hideous, hilarious, illustrious, imperious, impervious, industrious, inglorious, injurious, insidious, invidious, laborious, lascivious, lugubrious, luxurious, melodious, meritorious, mysterious, nefarious, notorious, nucleus, oblivious, obsequious, obvious, odious, pancreas, penurious, precarious, previous, punctilious, radius, Sartorius, serious, spurious, studious, supercilious, tedious, various, vicarious, victorious, vitreous.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-i-i-m-n-n-o-o-s-s-t-u"
	-2 letters: sonications.
	-3 letters: contusions, cosmonauts, incautions, insomniacs, insouciant, onomastics, sonication.
	-4 letters: aconitums, actinisms, actiniums, antinomic, autonomic, canonists, conations, continuos, contusion, cosmonaut, countians, inactions, incaution, insomniac, insomnias, iotacisms, isosmotic, miscounts, misunions, monastics, monitions, mosaicist, mountains, munitions, musicians, nonatomic, nonmusics, onanistic, onomastic, sanctions, simoniacs, unionisms, unionists.
	-5 letters: aconitum, actinism, actinium, actinons, amitosis, amnionic, amniotic, amotions, animists, astomous, auctions, canonist, cautions, coitions, conation, coniosis, contains, continua, continuo, countian, inaction, insomnia, iotacism, isonomic, isotonic, manitous, mannitic, mansions, massicot, miscoins, miscount, misunion, monastic, monistic, monition, mountain, munition, musician, nicotins, nomistic, nonmusic, nonsuits, omission, onanisms, onanists, sanction, sanctums, scansion, scotomas, simoniac, simonist, sonantic, stannous, stannums, stasimon, stoicism, suctions, tinamous, tsunamic, tsunamis, unctions, unionism, unionist.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-i-i-m-n-n-o-o-s-s-t-u"
	+2 letters: sanctimoniously.
	+4 letters: constitutionalism, macroinstructions, miscommunications, mispronunciations, sanctimoniousness.
	+5 letters: constitutionalisms.
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