| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| sanctimonious |
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| SYLLABICATION: | sanc·ti·mo·ni·ous |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  s ngk t -m  n -s |
| ADJECTIVE: | Feigning piety or righteousness: “a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg that looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity” (Mark Twain). | | OTHER FORMS: | sancti·moni·ous·ly —ADVERB
sancti·moni·ous·ness —NOUN
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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