The assuming of a false appearance of virtue or goodness, with dissimulation of real character or inclinations, esp. in respect of religious life…

Hypocrisy (personified in quot. 1425). to play the pope-holy: to behave hypocritically. Obsolete.

(Sense uncertain; possibly not from the existing verb.) Obsolete.

Sanctimoniousness, hypocrisy.

The character and spirit of the Pharisees as commonly depicted in the New Testament; formalism, legalism; self-righteousness; hypocrisy; an…

= hypocrisy, n.

Pretended, affected or hypocritical holiness or saintliness; assumed or outward sanctity.

Worship that consists only in words.

Deep spiritual feeling, or the manifestation of this in language and utterance; a manner suggestive of religious earnestness or appreciation of…

‘Sanctified’ or pious demeanour.

Goodness of a weak and sentimental kind; affected or self-conscious conformity to conventional moral standards or good manners. Frequently in…

Devotion to religious feeling, or to strict religious practice; piety or pious sentiment, esp. of an affected or exaggerated kind. Also in…

Language or behaviour reminiscent of Pecksniff (cf. Pecksniff, n.); hypocrisy, officiousness.

That which is ostentatiously or sanctimoniously virtuous or correct; that which is ‘goody-good’.

The action or practice of attending services of more than one Christian denomination. See devil dodger, n. 2.

the quality of being goody-goody; cf. goody-goodyism, n.

The practice of behaving in an ostentatiously or sanctimoniously correct or virtuous manner.

Affected or excessive piousness; sanctimoniousness; (also) an instance of this.

figurative. Unctuous religiosity or complacency.