Word Meanings - SANCTIMONIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Possessing sanctimony; holy; sacred; saintly. Shak. 2. Making a show of sanctity; affecting saintliness; hypocritically devout or pious. "Like the sanctimonious pirate." Shak. -- Sanc`ti*mo"ni*ous*ly, adv. -- Sanc`ti*mo"ni*ous*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SANCTIMONIOUS)

• Hypocritical
• Pharisaical
• sanctimonious
• smug
• smooth
• mealy
• unctuous
• mincing
• Sanctimonious
• formal
• ceremonious
• precision

Related words: (words related to SANCTIMONIOUS)

• FORMALITY
  The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while
• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• SMOOTHNESS
  Quality or state of being smooth.
• MEALY
  1. Having the qualities of meal; resembling meal; soft, dry, and friable; easily reduced to a condition resembling meal; as, a mealy potato. 2. Overspread with something that resembles meal; as, the mealy wings of an insect. Shak. Mealy bug ,
• SANCTIMONIOUS
  1. Possessing sanctimony; holy; sacred; saintly. Shak. 2. Making a show of sanctity; affecting saintliness; hypocritically devout or pious. "Like the sanctimonious pirate." Shak. -- Sanc`ti*mo"ni*ous*ly, adv. -- Sanc`ti*mo"ni*ous*ness, n.
• SMOOTH-CHINNED
  Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton.
• CEREMONIOUSLY
  In a ceremonious way.
• SMOOTHLY
  In a smooth manner.
• FORMALIZE
  1. To give form, or a certain form, to; to model. 2. To render formal.
• FORMAL
  1. Belonging to the form, shape, frame, external appearance, or organization of a thing. 2. Belonging to the constitution of a thing, as distinguished from the matter composing it; having the power of making a thing what it is; constituent;
• SMOOTH-SPOKEN
  Speaking smoothly; plausible; flattering; smooth-tongued.
• SMOOTHER
  One who, or that which, smooths.
• MINCER
  One who minces.
• FORMALLY
  In a formal manner; essentially; characteristically; expressly; regularly; ceremoniously; precisely. That which formally makes this a Christian grace, is the spring from which it flows. Smalridge. You and your followers do stand formally divided
• SMOOTHING
  fr. Smooth, v. Smoothing iron, an iron instrument with a polished face, for smoothing clothes; a sadiron; a flatiron. -- Smoothing plane, a short, finely set plane, for smoothing and finishing work.
• MINCING
  That minces; characterized by primness or affected nicety.
• CEREMONIOUSNESS
  The quality, or practice, of being ceremonious.
• PRECISION
  The quality or state of being precise; exact limitation; exactness; accuracy; strict conformity to a rule or a standard; definiteness. I have left out the utmost precisions of fractions. Locke. Syn. -- Preciseness; exactness; accuracy; nicety. --
• SMOOTH
  Causing no resistance to a body sliding along its surface; frictionless. Note: Smooth is often used in the formation of selfexplaining compounds; as, smooth-bodied, smooth-browed, smooth-combed, smooth- faced, smooth-finished, smooth-gliding,
• CEREMONIOUS
  1. Consisting of outward forms and rites; ceremonial. Note: The ceremonious part of His worship. South. 2. According to prescribed or customary rules and forms; devoted to forms and ceremonies; formally respectful; punctilious. "Ceremonious
• REFORMALIZE
  To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
• UNIFORMAL
  Uniform. Herrick.
• CIRCUMINCESSION
  The reciprocal existence in each other of the three persons of the Trinity.
• INFORMALLY
  In an informal manner.