Difference between Sanctimonious and Pious

SANCTIMONIOUS vs PIOUS: ADJECTIVE

Behaving with sanctimony.
Characterized by sanctimony.
Possessing sanctimony; holy; sacred; saintly.
Making a show of being morally better than others, especially hypocritically pious.
Holy, devout.
Excessively or hypocritically pious

Having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity
Devoutly religious
Earnestly compliant in the observance of religion; reverent or devout.
Showing or characterized by religious devotion.
Done for the benefit of others or with the intention of encouraging good.
Sincere but wishful or far-fetched.
Self-righteous or sanctimonious.
Professing or exhibiting traditional morality; dutiful.
Of or pertaining to piety; exhibiting piety; reverential; dutiful; religious; devout; godly.
Practiced under the pretext of religion; prompted by mistaken piety
Expressive of or used in religious devotion; devotional.

Religious, holy, righteous, saintly. See religion.
Practised under the pretense of religion or for a good end: as, pious frauds.
Dictated by reverence for God; proceeding from piety: said of things: as, pious awe; pious services; pious sorrow.
Having faith in and reverence for the Supreme Being; actuated by faith in and reverence for God; godly; devout: said of persons.
Having or exhibiting due respect and affection for parents or others to whom respect and affection are due; also, pertaining to or consisting in the duties of respect and affection toward parents or others.

Smug, Pompous, Strip, Band, Moral, Moralist, Hypocritical, Moralistic, Pietistical, Pharisaic, Holier than thou, Self righteous, Pietistic, Pharisaical, Pious

Self righteous, Pietistical, Pharisaic, Holier than thou, God fearing, Devotional, Worshipful, Prayerful, Reverent, Religious, Pharisaical, Godly, Sanctimonious, Pietistic, Devout

Preachy, Smug, Pompous, Strip, Moral, Moralist, Hypocritical, Moralistic, Self righteous, Pietistical, Pharisaic, Holier than thou, Pietistic, Pharisaical, Pious

Self righteous, Pietistical, Pharisaic, Holier than thou, God fearing, Devotional, Worshipful, Prayerful, Reverent, Religious, Pharisaical, Godly, Sanctimonious, Pietistic, Devout

As a result, the book sometimes trends towards the superficial and sanctimonious.
Dunne's other problem is that he is sanctimonious.
Clapper is a real crapper with poo all over his hypocritical and sanctimonious ugly face.
And so the argument may be made that to term them noncommercial is sanctimonious humbug.
Though rather sanctimonious, Mr Biden is rightly known for civility and patience.
There will be no shortage of sanctimonious, insecure, and ignorant people.
You are a sanctimonious piece punchline just like your religion.
Go fuck yourself you sanctimonious, ahistorical piece of shit.
SYN: Pharisaical, sanctimonious, smug, smooth, mealy, unctuous, mincing.
Here goes the sanctimonious portion of their vlog.

The qadis were usually pious specialists in Islam.
It was miri land of which the State revenues were dedicated to pious uses or the usufruct of which was dedicated to pious foundations.
One IFI targets the moderately pious consumer segment while the other targets the highly pious segment.
Joseph of Arimathea was likely a pious Jewish leader who was acting as a pious Jew in the burial of Christ.
Eventually he comes to the conclusion that what makes pious things pious is the fact that all the gods love it.
Charles was well educated and knew many languages, was just, pious and godfearing, loving the pious and hating evil.
If they were not pious and were embroiled in bad practices how could they seek pious wives?
Mahmood discusses how pious women acquire their identity of being pious by appropriating socially authorized forms of performativity.
We are to be pious, then, as pious as children, but not ignorant.
Baykal went on to say that the prime minister discriminates between pious and non-pious people.