Meaning and example
excessively or hypocritically pious
A sickening sanctimonious smile
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 1.454 places sanctimonious in the common range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 93.1% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
- Known by
- 93.1%
a sudden and violent collapse
- Known by
- 93.1%
a precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem
- Known by
- 93.2%
deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious
- Known by
- 93.3%
a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
- Known by
- 93.3%
so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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