formalist

noun

Roget 988: impiety; sin etc. 945; irreverence; profaneness etc. adj.; profanity, profanation; blasphemy, desecration, sacrilege; scoffing etc. v.. [feigned piety] hypocrisy etc. (falsehood) 544; pietism, cant, pious fraud; lip devotion, lip service, lip reverence; misdevotion^†, formalism, austerity; sanctimony, sanctimoniousness etc. adj.; pharisaism, precisianism^†; sabbatism^†, sabbatarianism^†; odium theologicum [Lat.], sacerdotalism^†; bigotry etc. (obstinacy) 606, (prejudice) 481; blue laws.    hardening, backsliding, declension, perversion, reprobation.    sinner etc. 949; scoffer, blasphemer; sacrilegist^†; sabbath breaker; worldling; hypocrite etc. (dissembler) 548; Tartufe^†, Mawworm^†.    bigot; saint [Iron.]; Pharisee; sabbatarian^†, formalist, methodist, puritan, pietist^†, precisian^†, religionist, devotee; ranter, fanatic, juramentado^†.    the wicked, the evil, the unjust, the reprobate; sons of men, sons of Belial, the wicked one; children of darkness.    ... show more

Moby thesaurus: Babbitt, High-Churchist, Holy Willie, Joseph Surface, Mawworm, Middle American, Pecksniff, Pharisee, Philistine, Sabbatarian, Tartuffe, Vicar of Bray, affecter, anal character, bluestocking, bourgeois, burgher, canter, canting hypocrite, chameleon, compulsive character, conformer, conformist, conventionalist, dissembler, dissimulator, formularist, formulist, hypocrite, lip server, lip worshiper, liturgist, methodologist, middle-class type, model child, organization man, parrot, pedant, perfectionist, pharisee, pietist, pious fraud, plastic person, poser, precieuse, precieux, precisian, precisianist, precisionist, purist, ranter, religionist, religious hypocrite, ritualist, sacramentarian, sheep, sniveler, snuffler, spiritual humbug, square, teenybopper, temporizer, timepleaser, timeserver, trimmer, weathercock, whited sepulcher, yes-man ... show more.

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