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Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - sanctimonious

 
 

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Sanctimonious

sanctimonious
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 ADJ c darkgreen]disapproval
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1.
   adjective  Date: 1603  1. hypocritically pious or devout a ~ moralist the king's ~ rebuke — G. B. Shaw  2. obsolete possessing sanctity ; holy  • ~ly adverb  • ~ness noun ...
Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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  adj. making a show of sanctity or piety. Derivatives sanctimoniously adv. sanctimoniousness n. sanctimony n. Etymology: L sanctimonia sanctity (as SAINT) ...
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  1. книж. ханжеский, лицемерный his sanctimonious air —- его ханжеский вид sanctimonious knave —- лицемерный подлец sanctimonious person —- ханжа, святоша ...
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  adj. ханжеский Syn: see religious ...
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  ~ adj formal behaving as if you are morally better than other people, in a way that is annoying  (sanctimonious politicians preaching to everyone about family values) - sanctimoniously adv - sanctimoniousness n ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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  - 1603 (in "Measure for Measure," with the disparaging sense), from sanctimony (1540), from M.Fr. sanctimonie, from L. sanctimonia "holiness, virtuousness," from sanctus "holy" (see saint). ...
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