Crossword-Solution: SANCTIMONIOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Sanctimonious | a. | Possessing sanctimony; holy; sacred; saintly. |
| Sanctimonious | a. | Making a show of sanctity; affecting saintliness; hypocritically devout or pious. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “SANCTIMONIOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Excessively pious | 1 answer |
| Making a show of being morally better than other people | 1 answer |
| holier-than-thou | 9 answers |
| Ersatz | 23 answers |
| disingenuous | 50 answers |
| hypocritical | 53 answers |
| ARTIFICIAL ___ | 65 answers |
| Lying | 75 answers |
| False ___ | 91 answers |
| Holy | 96 answers |
| White | 112 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with SANCTIMONIOUS (5)
There is no hocus-pocus in morality; and even the “sanctimonious ceremony” of marriage leaves the man unchanged.
Against the hypocrisy of Helene Jegado I will set you the sanctimonious Dr Pritchard, with the nauseating entry in his diary (quoted by Mr Roughead) recording the death of the wife he so cruelly murdered: March 1865, 18, Saturday.
The very fact that the little fool could be made to appear to have been so sly and sanctimonious would stir the gall of any jury of men.
She was born in a hill-smothered Wisconsin village where her father was a prosy minister; she labored through a sanctimonious college; she taught for two years in an iron-range town of blurry-faced Tatars and Montenegrins, and wastes of ore, and when she came to Gopher Prairie, its trees and the shining spaciousness of the wheat prairie made her certain that she was in paradise.
SONG — PIRATE KING KING: Oh, better far to live and die Under the brave black flag I fly, Than play a sanctimonious part With a pirate head and a pirate heart.
Quotes with SANCTIMONIOUS (3)
The vermin explain their sin with sanctimonious language like, "We've prayed about it and sought counsel, and we feel it's the right thing to do." Don't let it down on them that to the Enemy what they feel is inconsequential. His moral laws don't give a rip about how any of them feel. The sludgebags have no more power to vote them in and out of existence than they have power to revoke the law of gravity.
The most insidious of our country, the greediest and highest rung of our socioeconomic ladder, line their pockets with misappropriated funds as military personnel and hordes of civilians are maimed or killed. It’s not their children out there, blinded by manufactured patriotism or lured into the service with the promise of economic stability, all with the sanctimonious blessings of misguided public consent by way of corporate, state-sponsored media. It won’t be their children…
Pete couldn't believe how sanctimonious somebody could be just because they'd once had a soldering iron stuck up their arse.