Sanctimonious vs Nonsanctimonious - What's the difference?
sanctimonious | nonsanctimonious |
Making a show of being morally better than others, especially hypocritically pious.
(archaic) Holy, devout.
Not sanctimonious.
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As adjectives the difference between sanctimonious and nonsanctimonious
is that sanctimonious is making a show of being morally better than others, especially hypocritically pious while nonsanctimonious is not sanctimonious.sanctimonious
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* sanctimoniously * sanctimoniousness * sanctimonynonsanctimonious
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