SANCTIMONIOUS
ADJECTIVES
1594 ► MUMPING grimacing or assuming a demure, sanctimonious, or melancholy expression; querulous, complaining → chiefly Sc.
1742 ► UNCTUOUS sanctimonious
NOUNS
1756 ► SUNDAY FACE a sanctimonious expression; an affectedly solemn face → chiefly Sc.
NOUNS, PERSON
1563 ► SAINT a person of extraordinary holiness of life; a sanctimonious person; sometimes ironically, a person making an outward profession of piety
1840 ► BIBLE-BACK a sanctimonious, holier-than-thou person; hence, a clergyman, missionary, or proselytizer → sl.
1868 ► BIBLE-POUNDER a person who expounds or follows the Bible in an aggressive way, esp. a clergyman, a preacher; also, a sanctimonious Christian → colloq.
1872 ► GOSPEL SHARP a preacher; a parson; a goody-goody or sanctimonious person → Amer. dial.
1897 ► GOSPEL SHARK a preacher; a parson; a goody-goody or sanctimonious person → Amer. dial.
L19.. ► HOLY WILLIE a sanctimonious, hypocritically pious person → sl.
1900 ► GOSPEL SHOOTER a preacher; a parson; a goody-goody or sanctimonious person → Amer. dial.
1921 ► CHRISTER an over-pious or sanctimonious person → US sl.
PHRASES
19C ► BUNG UP AND BILGE FREE referring to one whose behaviour, while utterly proper, errs towards the self-satisfied and sanctimonious → US sl.
VERBS
1610 ► MUMP to assume a demure, melancholy, or sanctimonious expression; to be silent and sullen; to sulk, to mope
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