santurrón

adj.

1 self-righteous, goody-goody, priggish, bigoted.

2 excessively devout, overpious.

m.

1 overpious person, excessively pious person, excessively devout person.

2 goody-goody, Pharisee, affectedly good person, affectedly pious person.

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santurrón

► adjetivo

1 sanctimonious

► nombre masculino,nombre femenino

1 sanctimonious person

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santurrón, -ona

1.

ADJ (=mojigato) sanctimonious; (=hipócrita) hypocritical

2.

SM / F (=mojigato) sanctimonious person; (=hipócrita) hypocrite

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-rrona masculino, femenino (fam) overpious o excessively devout person

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= prude, prudish, sanctimonious, straitlaced [strait-laced].

Ex. For her refusal, Isabella has received a great deal of blame from subsequent critics, who call her a hard-hearted prude.

Ex. In his outward appearance Hitler showed himself as a prudish & ascetic person, overly concerned with personal cleanliness .

Ex. These denunciations make libraries look both sanctimonious and hypocritical for trying to save the world when they have failed to put ther own house in order.

Ex. Three years later, when he was fifteen, he slipped into Rachel's bedroom and her straitlaced mother caught them petting and giggling on the side of the bed.

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-rrona masculino, femenino (fam) overpious o excessively devout person

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= prude, prudish, sanctimonious, straitlaced [strait-laced].

Ex: For her refusal, Isabella has received a great deal of blame from subsequent critics, who call her a hard-hearted prude.

Ex: In his outward appearance Hitler showed himself as a prudish & ascetic person, overly concerned with personal cleanliness .

Ex: These denunciations make libraries look both sanctimonious and hypocritical for trying to save the world when they have failed to put ther own house in order.

Ex: Three years later, when he was fifteen, he slipped into Rachel's bedroom and her straitlaced mother caught them petting and giggling on the side of the bed.

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santurrón¹ -rrona

adjective

(fam); overpious, excessively devout

santurrón² -rrona

masculine, feminine

(fam)

overpious o excessively devout person

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santurrón, -ona Pey

♦ adj

sanctimonious

♦ nm,f

sanctimonious person;

ser un santurrón to be sanctimonious

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santurrón

I adj sanctimonious

II m, santurrona f sanctimonious person, Br tb

Holy Willie fam

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santurrón, -rrona adj, mpl -rrones : overly pious, sanctimonious

♦ santurronamente adv