pharisaical
71canting — hypocritical, sanctimonious, Pharisaical (see under HYPOCRISY) …
72hypocritical — sanctimonious, Pharisaical, canting (see under HYPOCRISY) Analogous words: unctuous, oily, slick, *fulsome: feigned, affected, assumed, simulated, shammed, counterfeited, pretended (see ASSUME) Contrasted words: genuine, veritable, bona fide,… …
73oil — vb Oil, grease, lubricate, anoint, cream all mean to smear or treat with an oily, fatty, or greasy substance, but they vary greatly in their implications of the substance used and the purpose for which it is employed and in their idiomatic… …
74sanctimonious — 1 pietistic, religious, *devout, pious Analogous words: see those at SANCTIMONIOUS 2 2 hypocritical, Pharisaical, canting (see under HYPOCRISY) Analogous words: affected, feigned, simulated, counterfeited, assumed, pretended (see ASSUME):… …
75smug — self complacent, self satisfied, priggish, *complacent Analogous words: self respecting, self esteeming, self admiring (see base words under REGARD n): Pharisaical, sanctimonious, hypocritical (see under HYPOCRISY) …
76holier-than-thou — adj sanctimonious, self righteous, Pharisaic, Pharisaical, tartuffian, pietistic, pietistical; unctuous, smug, self satisfied, Inf. uppity, Inf. uppish, haughty, snobbish …
77hypocritical — adj 1. insincere, disingenuous, deceitful, deceptive, crocodilian, untruthful, hollow, lying, false, mendacious, mealy mouthed; dishonest, underhanded, untrustworthy; perfidious, treacherous, traitorous, faithless, Punic, treasonable; double… …
78impious — adj 1. irreverent, irreligious, indevout, ungodly; Pharisaical, canting, pietistical, sanctimonious, hypocritical; blasphemous, sacrilegious, desecra tive; unrighteous, iniquitous, sinful, wicked, satanic, diabolic; perverted, reprobate, immoral …
79mealy-mouthed — adj 1. mincing, overnice, nice, overdelicate, delicate, overdainty, dainty, euphemistic, euphemistical, euphemious, affected; priggish, prim, proper, Sl. uptight; tartuffian, pious, moral, self righteous, sanctimonious, holier than thou,… …
80untruthful — adj mendacious, lying, fibbing, unveracious; dishonest, deceitful, insincere, uncandid, disingenuous; collusive, Law. covinous; dissembling, deceiving, hypocritical, two faced, Pharisaical; perjured, forsworn, prevaricative; misleading,… …
