sanctimoniously

1. 1.

   in a sanctimonious manner

   “she was sanctimoniously criticizing everybody”

   Synonymsself-righteously

Questions about sanctimoniously

What does sanctimoniously mean?

sanctimoniously means "in a sanctimonious manner".

How many syllables are in sanctimoniously?

sanctimoniously has 6 syllables and divides as sanc-ti-mo-ni-ou-sly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for sanctimoniously?

Close synonyms include self-righteously. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sanctimoniously a common word?

sanctimoniously is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.