Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | self-righteous |
| Synonyms: | Pecksniffian, bigoted, canting, deceiving, false, goody-goody, holier-than-thou, hypocritical, insincere, pharisaical, pietistic, pious, preachy, self-satisfied, smug, stuffy, unctuous |
| Antonyms: | humble, meek, modest |
| Main Entry: | holier-than-thou |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | self-righteously pious |
| Synonyms: | artificial, goody-goody, high-hat, judgmental, pietistic, sanctimonious, simon-pure, smug, snobbish, unctuous |
| Main Entry: | hypocritical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceitful, pretending |
| Synonyms: | affected, artificial, assuming, bland, canting, captious, caviling, deceptive, deluding, dissembling, double, double-dealing, duplicitous, faithless, false, feigning, fishy, fraudulent, glib, hollow, insincere, jivey, left-handed, lying, moralistic, oily, pharisaical, phony, pietistic, pious, sanctimonious, self-righteous, smooth, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, snide, specious, spurious, two-faced, unctuous, unnatural, unreliable |
| Antonyms: | actual, authentic, forthright, honest, just, real, reliable, righteous, sincere, truthful, upright |
| Main Entry: | impious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not religious |
| Synonyms: | agnostic, apostate, atheistic, blasphemous, canting, contrary, deceitful, defiling, desecrating, desecrative, diabolic, disobedient, disrespectful, godless, hardened, hypocritical, iconoclastic, immoral, iniquitous, irreligious, irreverent, perverted, pietistical, profane, recusant, reprobate, sacrilegious, sanctimonious, satanic, scandalous, sinful, unctuous, undutiful, unethical, unfaithful, ungodly, unhallowed, unholy, unregenerate, unrighteous, unsanctified, wayward, wicked |
| Antonyms: | holy, pious, religious |
| Main Entry: | pious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dedicated, religious |
| Synonyms: | born-again, clerical, devoted, devout, divine, ecclesiastical, godly, goody-goody, orthodox, prayerful, priestly, reverent, righteous, sacred, saintly, sanctimonious, spiritual |
| Antonyms: | atheist, impious, irreligious, sinful, wicked |
| Main Entry: | self-righteous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | smug |
| Synonyms: | affected, canting, complacent, egotistical, goody-goody, holier-than-thou, hypocritical, noble, pharisaic, pietistic, pious, preachy, sanctimonious, self-satisfied, superior |
| Antonyms: | caring, humble, thoughtful, understanding |
| Main Entry: | Pecksniffian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hypocritical |
| Synonyms: | affected, artificial, assuming, bland, canting, captious, caviling, deceptive, deluding, dissembling, double, double-dealing, duplicitous, faithless, false, feigning, fishy, fraudulent, glib, hollow, insincere, jivey, left-handed, lying, moralistic, oily, pharisaic, pharisaical, phony*, pietistic, pious, sanctimonious, self-righteous, smooth*, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, snide, specious, spurious, two-faced, unctuous, unnatural, unreliable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pharisaic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hypocritical |
| Synonyms: | Pecksniffian, affected, artificial, assuming, bland, canting, captious, caviling, deceptive, deluding, dissembling, double, double-dealing, duplicitous, faithless, false, feigning, fishy, fraudulent, glib, hollow, insincere, jivey, left-handed, lying, moralistic, oily, pharisaical, phony*, pietistic, pious, sanctimonious, self-righteous, smooth*, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, snide, specious, spurious, two-faced, unctuous, unnatural, unreliable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pharisaical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hypocritical |
| Synonyms: | Pecksniffian, affected, artificial, assuming, bland, canting, captious, caviling, deceptive, deluding, dissembling, double, double-dealing, duplicitous, faithless, false, feigning, fishy, fraudulent, glib, hollow, insincere, jivey, left-handed, lying, moralistic, oily, pharisaic, phony*, pietistic, pious, sanctimonious, self-righteous, smooth*, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, snide, specious, spurious, two-faced, unctuous, unnatural, unreliable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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