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Chris -- 2025-05-10
‘Sanctimonious’ having moved towards a kind of hypocritical piety, some users may be wish to emphasise the sacred rather than sanctions but perhaps not.
I don’t believe I’ve ever seen such a display of saintimonious furor. Just like an academic to toot your own horn…
Lets stop being saintimonious; some of the best and long lasting unions are of people that are not married; stop criticizing people because ..
He should have choked on all those saintamonious speeches he spewed out to Maya, he has no room to talk.
A simbling:
You see, I’m not obligated to be nice to you, ever, nor am I obligated to appeal to your sanctimoanius power fantasies of always being the goodest goy!
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I like saintimoanious, with the picture it brings of bewailing the dire state (or is it a strait?) of present-day morals. It occurs in the (perhaps, as you note) less saintly version as well, sometimes clearly as a conscious pun, but sometimes apparently not:
[Urban Dictionary definition] Sanctimoanious. An individual who pretends to be perfect while moaning at the appalling behaviour of those around him or her.
Penalty Charge Notice advice | General Discussion | Page 2 ¶ Oct 13, 2009 — Your sanctimoanious post ..VIS ….”utter nonsense being posted and advised.” will at best “Upset” members at worst cause “flaming”
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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Too bad “saintimoanious” isn’t in use—that would have been a two-bagger, like “eggcorn” itself.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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Though isn’t the corn of acorn a cognate? Like saint is cognate with sanct(us), but with less phonological change to mark off a different branch of the derivation?
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2023-08-08 15:04:44)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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