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  • 51self-righteous — Synonyms and related words: Tartuffian, Tartuffish, affected, canting, complacent, FALSE, goody, goody goody, holier than thou, hypocritical, insincere, mealy mouthed, mealymouthed, pecksniffian, pharisaic, pharisaical, pi, pietistic, pious,… …

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  • 52falsehood — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of honesty Nouns 1. falsehood, falseness, dishonesty; falsity, falsification; deception, untruth; lying, misrepresentation, disinformation, plausible denial; mendacity, perjury, forgery, invention,… …

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  • 53impiety — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of piety Nouns 1. impiety, impiousness; irreverence; profaneness, profanity, profanation; blasphemy, desecration, sacrilege; apostasy, iconoclasm; scoffing; hardening, fall from grace; backsliding,… …

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  • 54phony — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj., informal, spurious, fraudulent, sham, mock, put on (sl.), trumped up, fake, forged; gimcrack, pasteboard; deceitful, false hearted, lying; glib, canting, superficial. n., informal, counterfeit,… …

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  • 55sanctimonious — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. pietistic, sacrosanct; self righteous, holier than thou; hypocritical, goody goody (inf.). See impiety. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. self righteous, pietistic, hypocritical, holier than thou*, goody… …

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  • 56two-faced — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. hypocritical, deceitful, double dealing; faithless, false. See falsehood, deception. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. deceitful, caviling, treacherous, Janus faced; see false 1 , hypocritical . III… …

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  • 57hypocritical — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. deceiving, deceptive, deluding, double dealing, shamming, sanctimonious, dissembling, pious, unctuous, unreliable, mealy mouthed, canting, insincere, double faced, smooth tongued, affected, false, caviling,… …

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  • 58Pecksniffian — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Of or practicing hypocrisy: hypocritical, phar isaic, pharisaical, phony, sanctimonious, two faced. See HONEST …

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  • 59Pharisaic — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Of or practicing hypocrisy: hypocritical, Peck sniffian, pharisaical, phony, sanctimonious, two faced. See HONEST …

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  • 60Falsehood — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Falsehood >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 falsehood falsehood falseness Sgm: N 1 falsity falsity falsification Sgm: N 1 deception deception &c. 545 Sgm: N 1 untruth untruth &c. 546 Sgm …

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