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- holier-than-thou
collapse - excessively or hypocritically pious; "a sickening sanctimonious smile" 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,
- priggish,
- sanctified,
- sanctimonious,
- self-satisfied,
- smug,
- sniveling,
- superior,
- unctuous
- pietistic
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- of or relating to Pietism; "the Pietistic movement" related words >
- Christian,
- Christianlike,
- Christianly,
- Tartuffian,
- Tartuffish,
- adoring,
- affected,
- assured,
- believing,
- canting,
- certain,
- confident,
- convinced,
- cultish,
- cultist,
- cultistic,
- devoted,
- devout,
- dogmatic,
- doubtless,
- dutiful,
- faithful,
- false,
- fideistic,
- godly,
- goody,
- goody-goody,
- holier-than-thou,
- holy,
- hypocritical,
- impressed with,
- insincere,
- mealymouthed,
- persuaded,
- pharisaic,
- pious,
- pistic,
- positive,
- prayerful,
- religious,
- reverent,
- reverential,
- sanctified,
- sanctimonious,
- satisfied,
- secure,
- self-righteous,
- sniveling,
- sold on,
- solemn,
- sure,
- theistic,
- unctuous,
- under the impression,
- undoubtful,
- undoubting,
- venerational,
- venerative,
- worshipful
- Pecksniffian,
- Quakerish,
- Tartuffian,
- Tartuffish,
- Victorian,
- affected,
- canting,
- censorious,
- deceiving,
- demure,
- false,
- fanatical,
- goody,
- goody-goody,
- hidebound,
- holier-than-thou,
- hypocritic,
- hypocritical,
- insincere,
- mealy-mouthed,
- mealymouthed,
- mid-Victorian,
- narrow,
- oily,
- old-maidish,
- overdevout,
- overmodest,
- overreligious,
- overrighteous,
- overzealous,
- pecksniffian,
- pharisaic,
- pharisaical,
- pharisean,
- pietistic,
- pious,
- priggish,
- prim,
- prudish,
- puritanical,
- sanctified,
- self-righteous,
- simon-pure,
- smug,
- sniveling,
- snuffling,
- stiff-necked,
- straitlaced,
- stuffy,
- ultrareligious,
- unctuous,
- zealotic,
- zealous
- Pecksniffian,
- Tartuffian,
- Tartuffish,
- affected,
- aslant,
- aslope,
- atilt,
- bevel,
- beveled,
- bias,
- biased,
- careening,
- false,
- goody,
- goody-goody,
- holier-than-thou,
- hypocritic,
- hypocritical,
- inclinational,
- inclinatory,
- inclined,
- inclining,
- insincere,
- leaning,
- listing,
- mealymouthed,
- oily,
- out of plumb,
- out of square,
- pecksniffian,
- pharisaic,
- pharisaical,
- pharisean,
- pietistic,
- pious,
- pitched,
- raking,
- recumbent,
- sanctified,
- sanctimonious,
- self-righteous,
- shelving,
- shelvy,
- sideling,
- sidelong,
- simon-pure,
- slant,
- slanted,
- slanting,
- slantways,
- slantwise,
- sloped,
- sloping,
- sniveling,
- tilted,
- tilting,
- tipped,
- tipping,
- tipsy,
- unctuous
- Tartuffian,
- Tartuffish,
- affected,
- ambrosia,
- better half,
- bonne bouche,
- canting,
- cate,
- choice morsel,
- common-law wife,
- concubine,
- dainty,
- delicacy,
- dessert,
- false,
- feme,
- feme covert,
- goodwife,
- goody-goody,
- helpmate,
- helpmeet,
- holier-than-thou,
- hypocritical,
- insincere,
- kickshaw,
- lady,
- manna,
- married woman,
- matron,
- mealymouthed,
- morsel,
- nectar,
- old lady,
- old woman,
- pharisaic,
- pietistic,
- pious,
- rib,
- sanctified,
- sanctimonious,
- savory,
- self-righteous,
- sniveling,
- squaw,
- tidbit,
- titbit,
- treat,
- unctuous,
- wedded wife,
- wife,
- woman
- Tartuffian,
- Tartuffish,
- affected,
- aggrandized,
- apotheosized,
- awesome,
- beatified,
- big,
- blessed,
- canonized,
- canting,
- consecrated,
- converted,
- dedicated,
- deified,
- devoted,
- elevated,
- eminent,
- ennobled,
- enshrined,
- enthroned,
- exalted,
- excellent,
- false,
- glorified,
- goody,
- goody-goody,
- grand,
- great,
- hallowed,
- held in awe,
- high,
- high and mighty,
- holier-than-thou,
- hypocritical,
- immortal,
- immortalized,
- insincere,
- lofty,
- magnified,
- mealymouthed,
- mighty,
- pharisaic,
- pietistic,
- pious,
- reborn,
- redeemed,
- regenerate,
- regenerated,
- sacred,
- sainted,
- saintly,
- sanctimonious,
- saved,
- self-righteous,
- set apart,
- shrined,
- sniveling,
- sublime,
- supereminent,
- throned,
- unctuous
- Lord Fauntleroy,
- Pecksniffian,
- Percy,
- Tartuffian,
- Tartuffish,
- Victorian,
- affected,
- bluenose,
- canting,
- chicken,
- cream puff,
- effeminate,
- elegant,
- euphemistic,
- euphuistic,
- exquisite,
- false,
- formalistic,
- goody,
- goody good-good,
- holier-than-thou,
- hypocritic,
- hypocritical,
- insincere,
- lily,
- mealymouthed,
- mid-Victorian,
- milksop,
- mincing,
- mollycoddle,
- namby-pamby,
- nance,
- nancy,
- oily,
- old maid,
- old woman,
- overnice,
- overprecise,
- overrefined,
- pantywaist,
- pedantic,
- pharisaic,
- pharisean,
- pietistic,
- pious,
- precieuse,
- precious,
- precisian,
- precisianistic,
- precisionistic,
- prig,
- prude,
- puristic,
- puritan,
- sanctified,
- sanctimonious,
- self-righteous,
- simon-pure,
- simpering,
- sissy,
- sniveling,
- unctuous,
- weak sister
- pious
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- having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity; "pious readings" related words >
- Christian,
- Christianlike,
- Christianly,
- God-fearing,
- Tartuffian,
- Tartuffish,
- adoring,
- affected,
- angelic,
- assured,
- believing,
- canting,
- certain,
- confident,
- convinced,
- cultish,
- cultist,
- cultistic,
- dedicated,
- devoted,
- devout,
- dogmatic,
- doubtless,
- dutiful,
- faithful,
- false,
- fideistic,
- fraudulent,
- godlike,
- godly,
- good,
- goody,
- goody-goody,
- holier-than-thou,
- holy,
- hypocritical,
- impressed with,
- insincere,
- mealy-mouthed,
- mealymouthed,
- moral,
- oily,
- persuaded,
- pharisaic,
- pietistic,
- pistic,
- positive,
- prayerful,
- pretended,
- priestly,
- religious,
- reverent,
- reverential,
- right-minded,
- saintly,
- sanctified,
- sanctimonious,
- satisfied,
- secure,
- self-righteous,
- seraphic,
- smarmy,
- sniveling,
- sold on,
- solemn,
- spiritual,
- sure,
- theistic,
- unctuous,
- under the impression,
- undoubtful,
- undoubting,
- venerational,
- venerative,
- virtuous,
- worshipful
- hypocritical
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- professing feelings or virtues one does not have; "hypocritical praise" related words >
- Pecksniffian,
- Tartuffian,
- Tartuffish,
- affected,
- alleged,
- ambidextrous,
- assumed,
- avowed,
- bland,
- canting,
- casuistic,
- claimed,
- counterfeited,
- deceitful,
- deceiving,
- deceptive,
- dishonest,
- dissembling,
- double,
- double-dealing,
- double-faced,
- double-minded,
- double-tongued,
- doublehearted,
- fake,
- faked,
- faking,
- false,
- feigned,
- feigning,
- glib,
- goody,
- goody-goody,
- holier-than-thou,
- hypocritic,
- in name only,
- insincere,
- left-handed,
- lying,
- mealymouthed,
- mendacious,
- moralistic,
- oily,
- ostensible,
- pecksniffian,
- perfidious,
- pharisaic,
- pharisaical,
- pharisean,
- phony,
- pietistic,
- pious,
- pretended,
- pretending,
- pretexted,
- professed,
- purported,
- put-on,
- sanctified,
- sanctimonious,
- self-righteous,
- sham,
- simon-pure,
- simulated,
- smooth,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-tongued,
- sniveling,
- so-called,
- specious,
- spurious,
- treacherous,
- two-faced,
- unctuous,
- underhand,
- untrustworthy
- Tartuffian,
- Tartuffish,
- abject,
- affected,
- backscratching,
- bawling,
- beggarly,
- blubbering,
- bootlicking,
- canting,
- cowering,
- crawling,
- cringing,
- crouching,
- cry,
- crying,
- dissolved in tears,
- false,
- fawning,
- fit of crying,
- flattering,
- flood of tears,
- footlicking,
- good cry,
- goody,
- goody-goody,
- greet,
- groveling,
- hangdog,
- holier-than-thou,
- hypocritical,
- in tears,
- ingratiating,
- insincere,
- lachryma,
- lachrymal,
- lachrymose,
- lachrymosity,
- lacrimatory,
- mealymouthed,
- melting mood,
- obeisant,
- obsequious,
- on bended knee,
- overflowing eyes,
- parasitic,
- pharisaic,
- pietistic,
- pious,
- prostrate,
- ready to cry,
- sanctified,
- sanctimonious,
- self-righteous,
- sobbing,
- sponging,
- sycophantic,
- tear,
- tear bottle,
- teardrop,
- tearful,
- tearful eyes,
- tearfulness,
- tears,
- teary,
- timeserving,
- toadeating,
- toadying,
- toadyish,
- truckling,
- unctuous,
- weepiness,
- weeping,
- weepy,
- whimpering,
- with eyes suffused
- Pecksniffian,
- Tartuffian,
- Tartuffish,
- adipose,
- adulatory,
- affected,
- bland,
- blandishing,
- blarneying,
- blubbery,
- buttery,
- butyraceous,
- cajoling,
- canting,
- chrismal,
- chrismatory,
- complimentary,
- courtierly,
- courtly,
- disarming,
- fair-spoken,
- false,
- fat,
- fatty,
- fawning,
- fine-spoken,
- flattering,
- fulsome,
- glib,
- goody,
- goody-goody,
- greasy,
- gushing,
- holier-than-thou,
- honey-mouthed,
- honey-tongued,
- honeyed,
- hypocritic,
- hypocritical,
- ingratiating,
- insincere,
- insinuating,
- lardaceous,
- lardy,
- mealymouthed,
- mucoid,
- obsequious,
- oily,
- oily-tongued,
- oleaginous,
- oleic,
- pharisaic,
- pharisean,
- pietistic,
- pious,
- rich,
- sanctified,
- sanctimonious,
- sebaceous,
- self-righteous,
- simon-pure,
- sleek,
- slick,
- slimy,
- slippery,
- slobbery,
- smarmy,
- smooth,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-tongued,
- smug,
- sniveling,
- soapy,
- soft-soaping,
- soft-spoken,
- suave,
- suave-spoken,
- suety,
- sycophantic,
- tallowy,
- unguent,
- unguentary,
- unguentous,
- wheedling
- mealymouthed
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- hesitant to state facts or opinions simply and directly as from e.g. timidity or hypocrisy; "a mealymouthed politician" related words >
- Pecksniffian,
- Tartuffian,
- Tartuffish,
- abject,
- adulatory,
- affected,
- backscratching,
- beggarly,
- bland,
- blandishing,
- blarneying,
- bootlicking,
- buttery,
- cajoling,
- canting,
- casuistic,
- complimentary,
- courtierly,
- courtly,
- cowering,
- crawling,
- cringing,
- crouching,
- dishonest,
- disingenuous,
- empty,
- fair-spoken,
- false,
- fawning,
- fine-spoken,
- flattering,
- footlicking,
- fulsome,
- goody,
- goody-goody,
- groveling,
- gushing,
- hangdog,
- holier-than-thou,
- hollow,
- honey-mouthed,
- honey-tongued,
- honeyed,
- hypocritic,
- hypocritical,
- ingratiating,
- insincere,
- insinuating,
- jesuitic,
- obeisant,
- obsequious,
- oily,
- oily-tongued,
- on bended knee,
- parasitic,
- pharisaic,
- pharisean,
- pietistic,
- pious,
- prostrate,
- sanctified,
- sanctimonious,
- self-righteous,
- simon-pure,
- slimy,
- slobbery,
- smarmy,
- smooth,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-tongued,
- sniveling,
- soapy,
- soft-soaping,
- sponging,
- sycophantic,
- timeserving,
- toadeating,
- toadying,
- toadyish,
- tongue in cheek,
- truckling,
- uncandid,
- unctuous,
- unfrank,
- unserious,
- wheedling
- insincere
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- lacking sincerity; "a charming but thoroughly insincere woman"; "their praise was extravagant and insincere" related words >
- Machiavellian,
- Tartuffian,
- Tartuffish,
- adulatory,
- affected,
- ambidextrous,
- apparently sound,
- artful,
- artificial,
- bland,
- blandishing,
- blarneying,
- buttery,
- cajoling,
- calculating,
- canting,
- casuistic,
- colorable,
- complimentary,
- courtierly,
- courtly,
- crafty,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- deceitful,
- deceptive,
- dishonest,
- disingenuous,
- dissembling,
- double,
- double-dealing,
- duplicitous,
- empty,
- evasive,
- fair-spoken,
- faithless,
- fallacious,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- fawning,
- fine-spoken,
- flattering,
- forsworn,
- foxy,
- fulsome,
- goody,
- goody-goody,
- gushing,
- histrionic,
- holier-than-thou,
- hollow,
- honey-mouthed,
- honey-tongued,
- honeyed,
- hypocritical,
- illusive,
- insinuating,
- jesuitic,
- la-di-da,
- lying,
- maniere,
- mannered,
- mealymouthed,
- mendacious,
- obsequious,
- oily,
- oily-tongued,
- overacted,
- overdone,
- overrefined,
- oversubtle,
- perfidious,
- perjured,
- pharisaic,
- philosophistic,
- pietistic,
- pious,
- plausible,
- pretentious,
- sanctified,
- sanctimonious,
- scheming,
- self-righteous,
- shifty,
- slick,
- slimy,
- slippery,
- slobbery,
- sly,
- smarmy,
- smooth,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-tongued,
- sniveling,
- soapy,
- soft-soaping,
- sophistic,
- sophistical,
- specious,
- stagy,
- sycophantic,
- theatrical,
- tongue in cheek,
- treacherous,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- uncandid,
- unctuous,
- underhanded,
- unfrank,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unserious,
- unsincere,
- untruthful,
- vulpine,
- wheedling,
- wily
- affected
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- acted upon; influenced
- speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Gongoristic,
- Johnsonian,
- Marinistic,
- Tartuffian,
- Tartuffish,
- afflicted,
- agonized,
- apocryphal,
- artificial,
- assumed,
- attacked,
- awkward,
- bastard,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- bogus,
- brummagem,
- canting,
- chichi,
- colorable,
- colored,
- concerned,
- contrived,
- convoluted,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- declamatory,
- devoured by,
- diseased,
- distorted,
- distressed,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- elaborate,
- elaborated,
- elevated,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- ersatz,
- euphuistic,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- false,
- falsified,
- feigned,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- fulsome,
- garbled,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- goody,
- goody-goody,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- gripped,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- histrionic,
- holier-than-thou,
- hollow,
- hurt,
- hyperelegant,
- hypocritical,
- illegitimate,
- imbued with,
- imitation,
- implicated,
- impressed,
- impressed with,
- influenced,
- inkhorn,
- insincere,
- involved,
- junky,
- la-di-da,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- make-believe,
- man-made,
- maniere,
- mannered,
- mealymouthed,
- meretricious,
- mincing,
- mock,
- moved,
- obsessed,
- obsessed by,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overacted,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overinvolved,
- overnice,
- overrefined,
- overwrought,
- pedantic,
- penetrated with,
- perverted,
- pharisaic,
- phony,
- pietistic,
- pinchbeck,
- pious,
- pompous,
- precieuse,
- precieux,
- precious,
- pretended,
- pretentious,
- pseudo,
- put-on,
- quasi,
- queer,
- racked,
- rhetorical,
- sanctified,
- sanctimonious,
- seized,
- seized with,
- self-conscious,
- self-righteous,
- self-styled,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- showy,
- simulated,
- sniveling,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- sonorous,
- specious,
- spurious,
- stagy,
- stiff,
- stilted,
- stirred,
- stricken,
- struck,
- studied,
- supposititious,
- swayed,
- synthetic,
- tall,
- theatrical,
- tin,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- torn,
- tortuous,
- tortured,
- touched,
- troubled,
- twisted,
- unauthentic,
- unctuous,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unreal,
- upset,
- warped,
- wracked
- false
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- (used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful; "a false friend"; "when lovers prove untrue"
- arising from error; "a false assumption"; "a mistaken view of the situation"
- inaccurate in pitch; "a false (or sour) note"; "her singing was off key"
- designed to deceive; "a suitcase with a false bottom"
- deliberately deceptive; "hollow (or false) promises"; "false pretenses"
- not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality; "gave false testimony under oath"; "false tales of bravery"
- erroneous and usually accidental; "a false start"; "a false alarm" related words >
- Barmecidal,
- Barmecide,
- Machiavellian,
- Tartuffian,
- Tartuffish,
- aberrant,
- abroad,
- adrift,
- affected,
- airy,
- all abroad,
- all off,
- all wrong,
- ambidextrous,
- amiss,
- apostate,
- apparent,
- apparitional,
- artful,
- artificial,
- askew,
- astray,
- at fault,
- autistic,
- awry,
- backsliding,
- baseborn,
- bastard,
- beguiling,
- beside the mark,
- bogus,
- brummagem,
- calculating,
- canting,
- catchy,
- chimeric,
- chiseling,
- collusive,
- concocted,
- contrary to fact,
- corrupt,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- deceitful,
- deceiving,
- deceptive,
- defective,
- deluding,
- delusional,
- delusionary,
- delusive,
- delusory,
- dereistic,
- derelict,
- deviant,
- deviational,
- deviative,
- devious,
- disaffected,
- dishonest,
- disloyal,
- distorted,
- double,
- double-dealing,
- double-faced,
- double-minded,
- double-tongued,
- doublehearted,
- dreamlike,
- dreamy,
- dubious,
- dummy,
- duplicitous,
- errant,
- erring,
- erroneous,
- ersatz,
- fabricated,
- factitious,
- faithless,
- fake,
- faked,
- fallacious,
- false-principled,
- falsehearted,
- fantastic,
- faultful,
- faulty,
- feigned,
- fickle,
- fictitious,
- finagling,
- fishy,
- flawed,
- forged,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- goody,
- goody-goody,
- guileful,
- hallucinatory,
- heretical,
- heterodox,
- holier-than-thou,
- hollow,
- hypocritical,
- illegitimate,
- illogical,
- illusional,
- illusionary,
- illusive,
- illusory,
- imaginary,
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- wrong
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