Sanctimonious vs Condescending - What's the difference?
sanctimonious | condescending |
Making a show of being morally better than others, especially hypocritically pious.
(archaic) Holy, devout.
Assuming a tone of superiority, or a patronizing attitude.
As adjectives the difference between sanctimonious and condescending
is that sanctimonious is making a show of being morally better than others, especially hypocritically pious while condescending is assuming a tone of superiority, or a patronizing attitude.As a verb condescending is
present participle of lang=en.sanctimonious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* sanctimoniously * sanctimoniousness * sanctimonycondescending
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Quit talking to me in that condescending tone! You always treat me like a child – ugh!