sanctimoniousness

[sangk-tuh-moh-nee-uhs]

sanc·ti·mo·ni·ous

[sangk-tuh-moh-nee-uhs]
adjective
1.
making a hypocritical show of religious devotion, piety, righteousness, etc.: They resented his sanctimonious comments on immorality in America.
2.
Obsolete. holy; sacred.

Origin:
1595–1605; sanctimony + -ous

sanc·ti·mo·ni·ous·ly, adverb
sanc·ti·mo·ni·ous·ness, noun
non·sanc·ti·mo·ni·ous, adjective
non·sanc·ti·mo·ni·ous·ly, adverb
non·sanc·ti·mo·ni·ous·ness, noun
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un·sanc·ti·mo·ni·ous, adjective
un·sanc·ti·mo·ni·ous·ly, adverb
un·sanc·ti·mo·ni·ous·ness, noun
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Sanctimoniousness is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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sanctimonious (ˌsæŋktɪˈməʊnɪəs)
 
adj
affecting piety or making a display of holiness
 
[C17: from Latin sanctimonia sanctity, from sanctus holy]
 
sancti'moniously
 
adv
 
sancti'moniousness
 
n
 
'sanctimony
 
n

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